Paralympian denied use of water slides at Gold Coast water park

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Amputee Steve Simmonds, a former Barcelona paralympian and five-time world disabled water ski title holder, was told during a visit on Wednesday he could not go on any of WhiteWater World's rides and slides with his five-year-old daughter. Simmonds told The Courier-Mail newspaper he had been informed his carbon fibre prosthetic leg was classed as a metal object and such objects could not be taken on rides.

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