These comments are now closed. Athletics Results Calendar. Comments Join the conversation. To use comments you will need to have JavaScript enabled. Comment posted by U, at 4 Aug U For me, he's certainly blurred the lie between Olympians and Para-Olympians! I take my hat off to him, Are you trolling?
In the interest of fairness? If "able-bodied" athletes were to compete in the Paralympics then surely in your own words they would be competing "with equipment not available to other entrants". My view is any athlete who is able to meet the qualifying criteria should be allowed to compete. Would any of the able-bodied athletes want to swap places with him for his so-called "advantage"? No, they wouldn't. So let's just get on with it: may the best person win.
All forms of apartheid are wrong. Doesn't give him an advantage? Where would he be without them? Back at the start! Its a shame that if you are against his, or rather a participant with these prosthetics competing, then its viewed as anti-disability.
Which does no more than make disability something that should be pandered too, therefor lacking in the equality sought. If he's allowed to compete, good on him and good luck. But my sympathies are with the able-bodied athlete who misses out for the next round.
The guy doesn't have lower legs and can't run unaided. He needs contraptions to simulate running and therefor it is not a true competition. Comment posted by Andy, at 4 Aug Andy. If he "can't train as much" then he won't be as fit as an able-bodied athlete, yet he is still running 45 seconds.
With more training if they make the Cheetah more comfortable, or his body gets more tolerant of them he may start running 44s - times which only a tiny fraction of athletes can manage. Comment posted by pj, at 4 Aug pj One issue that no-one appears to have mentioned is that OP has a clear advantage over normally abled athletes, who, unlike him, are vulnerable to a huge array of injuries affecting feet and ankles.
Would they think, perhaps even justifiably, that it was unfair? There was concern, too, from the Paralympic community. Pistorius has always contended that he would like to compete at both the Olympics and the Paralympics, but some viewed the actions of the world's most famous disabled athlete as a defection.
Tanni Grey-Thompson, who won 11 gold medals at five Paralympics, had already made her position clear. I put Black's concern to Great Britain's current king of the quarter-mile, Martyn Rooney, who finished sixth in the m final in Beijing. How would he feel if he were beaten by Pistorius in London? Oscar has not gone out of his way to cheat. This is his situation: he needs to run with those blades.
He can modify things in ways that we can't, but there's things we can do that he can't, so it balances out quite well. The athletes who complain are the ones who aren't running fast enough. Ade Adepitan, who competed in wheelchair basketball and now presents Channel 4's That Paralympic Show , has more conflicted views, but feels that Pistorius could be a radical role model for disabled athletes. What doors would it open up? What implications does it have? None of us will know until it happens, but that's the great thing about what Oscar is doing: he's asking questions.
What everyone does agree on is that you would be hard pushed to find a nicer guy or better ambassador for his sport. Pistorius is known for telling children that his legs were bitten off by a big shark, or that they fell off because he didn't eat his greens — depending on whether their parents are around — and he believes it is his responsibility to educate people positively about disability.
He is heavily involved in the Mineseeker Foundation, which supplies prosthetic limbs to the victims of landmines in Mozambique. Pistorius was born in in Johannesburg to Sheila and Henke, who works in dolomite mining. After the amputation, Oscar was given a set of fibreglass legs and within six months he was taking his first faltering steps.
Some features of this site may not work without it. Davidson, Terence. Date: Rights: No known rights restrictions other than copyright. Abstract: On the 4th of August South African runner Oscar Pistorius became the first athlete to compete at the Olympic Games while running on prosthetic limbs.
Pistorius is a double below the knee amputee who runs on carbon J-shaped fibre blades. He represents a fusion of humanity and technology that will become an increasingly pressing issue for the sporting arena in the coming years. In this essay I use Pistorius as a case study to investigate how decisions regarding the use of enhancement technologies in sport should be made.
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