I think you missunderstand the (alleged) disabled....people with a handicap (the vets in this case) many times don’t allow themselves to be “disabled” and want no special treatment and take it as a point of pride....you show them respect when you compete with them and cut them no slack....in other words you’re not patronizing
That may very well be the case. I may have completely misread the intent there.
The use of the word “alleged”, though, is very commonly used to indicate that something’s not provably true.