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'Blade Runner' gets the chop: no Olympics for the double amputee
Posted by simon on 1/14/2008 on simon's blog

Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius, aka "Blade Runner", will not be allowed to compete in the Beijing Olympics now that the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) has ruled that his carbon fibre racing prosthetics give him "a clear competitive advantage".

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