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After legal wrangle, U.S. teen wheelchair racer competes against peers.

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| April 20, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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Byline: BEN NUCKOLS

By the time 16-year-old wheelchair racer Tatyana McFadden had covered the first 200 meters of a 1,600-meter race alongside able-bodied high school runners, she was in the lead. On her second trip around the 400-meter track, she began to lap the trailing runners.

When she crossed the finish line Wednesday afternoon, she was so far ahead of the pack that race officials asked her to take another lap.

Blowing away the field, however, wasn't the goal of a lawsuit that McFadden, a second-year high school student, brought against the Howard County school system. She didn't want to be counted as the…

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