NAPLES, Fla. (AP) - A southwest Florida woman has been doing push-ups and pull-ups and hanging from door frames by her fingertips to prepare her upper body for a rock climbing competition this week.

Loi Ho's lower body just needs one adjustment. When she gets to the climbing gym in Pontiac, Michigan, on Friday, she'll take off her artificial leg and wrap athletic tape around the bottom of her right thigh. Then she'll try to defend her first-place finishes in the past two Extremity Games.

Ho was born with a congenital deficiency that stopped her right leg from developing below the femur. The 29-year-old is one of about 80 participants with an amputation or other limb difference registered in the games that begin tomorrow near Detroit. Other events include mountain biking and motocross racing, martial arts, skateboarding, wakeboarding and kayaking.

The Extremity Games started three years ago when customers buying artificial feet from Michigan-based College Park Industries asked for prostheses that could withstand more intense activities.

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