Exeter Officials: Victoria Arlen Exclusion an 'Injustice'

Exeter officials recently sent a letter of support for town resident and Paralympian Victoria Arlen, who was excluded from a world swimming competition this month.

Arlen was ruled ineligible for the World Swimming Championships in Montreal, Canada after a doctor ruled she wasn't disabled enough.

Arlen is in a wheelchair after suffering from the spinal cord disease transverse myelitis.

She said she was "heartbroken" over the issue.

The Exeter Board of Selectmen wrote a letter to the International Paralympic Committee, calling her exclusion an "injustice."

Read the letter in the photo section above.

U.S. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, and Kelly Ayotte, R-NH, also sent letters to the IPC asking it to reverse the decision.

Arlen, 18, won a gold medal and three silvers in the 2012 London Paralympics.