Aaron Scheides News Today

When i tried them the first time i tried them within two minutes i hit my head on a fence. ran off into a ditch. jenna: have you competed with them before, aaron? have you gone through a whole entire race before wearing them? >> yes, i actually, i did the new york city triathlon two years. one year i walked the run portion and even when i was walking i actually was almost like a drunk. stayingered all over the road hitting people. jenna: we can understand that. anyone with our vision having to r...

Did you get involved with doing triathelons? >> i actually, i got involved with triathlons actually, to tell youth truth the reason was because i lost my vision. i always wanted to be a professional soccer player and when i started losing my vision i really started going through a downward spiral of grieving and i was diagnosed with eating disorder, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder. i even had some suicidal thoughts. and i, my brother asked me to come out for the swim team in high sc...

30-year-old aaron scheides is upset over a rule that requires him and other visually impaired runners or try athletes to wear blackout glasses like these. well show them to you on the screen in a second. that all the athletes are running are equally visually impaired. aaron calls that discrimination. says could harm him and other competitors. aaron is legally blind but he has about 20% of his vision. this an example of what someone like aaron would see. you can see sort of the outside of that cl...

Other. so what do you think is reasonable here as far as an accommodation for athletes like yourself that have a visual impairment? >> well, to me whats reasonable is, they have never done something like this before, whats reasonable is, if you feel that you need to a level playing field, and its not fair the way it is, you create different classes of blindness, b-1, b-2, b-3 which they already use in other paraolympic competitions. jenna: i see. >> im not sure where this was created. >> that is...