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Oscar Pistorius - Lucky Or Unlucky?

Posted on August 1st, 2007 by The King.
Categories: Everything and Anything!!!, Life.

I was strolling around on the web on different blogs looking for something interesting when I came across the news about Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee sprinter who wants to participate in the Olympics. The IAAF believes that the carbon-fibre prosthetics give him an unfair advantage over the “able-bodied” athletes as such. Just to be sure, they are checking on him and performing tests which they will pay out of their pocket. That’s a little background information.

My opinion is that he should Not be allowed to take part in the Olympics with the others. It’s not that I don’t have feelings or that I don’t see his pain, but I just feel, like the IAAF, that he does have an unfair advantage over the rest of the players.

I’m no expert, therefor I’m not going to go into the details that BBC news went into, but what I will do is tell you what I can see from my eyes. If you watch a normal person run, and a person with these prosthetic legs run, I think you can clearly see the difference. I’ve watched it on TV a lot of times, and the prosthetics do have a longer stride than normal athletes do. Additionally, it also gives them a bounce, due to the blades, which you don’t see with regular feet (if only ).

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