the fastest guy with no legs
Posted on 2008-May-31 at 06:57
He doesn't like to be called "the fastest guy with no legs", he'd rather be called "the fastest guy period".
Oscar Pistorius, a South African athlete with two artificial legs below the knee is trying to get himself qualified for the Olympics. Not the Paralympics, but the regular Olympics. The commission tried to get him disqualified claiming the bounce in his artificial running prothesis gives him a mechanical advantage, but the way it looks now, he will be allowed to participate if he can place himself.
It was on the news. To see him run was amazing and he was way ahead of his competition. A Dutch athlete who has one similar running prothesis demonstrated for the camera that the bounce in the artificial foot is strong but that her other, normal leg could match it nicely, disproving the claim that it could be an "advantage".
Here is an older ABC video:
Oscar Pistorius, a South African athlete with two artificial legs below the knee is trying to get himself qualified for the Olympics. Not the Paralympics, but the regular Olympics. The commission tried to get him disqualified claiming the bounce in his artificial running prothesis gives him a mechanical advantage, but the way it looks now, he will be allowed to participate if he can place himself.
It was on the news. To see him run was amazing and he was way ahead of his competition. A Dutch athlete who has one similar running prothesis demonstrated for the camera that the bounce in the artificial foot is strong but that her other, normal leg could match it nicely, disproving the claim that it could be an "advantage".
Here is an older ABC video:
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