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» Prosthetic triage: Inside the Paralympic repair shop
When you're an elite Paralympic competitor and your artificial limb isn't feeling quite right, there's a repair shop at Rio's athletes' village that can help. It's a busy place that's part emergency room, part industrial workshop where staff speak a total of 29 languages.
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