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Pistorius

'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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British weather rules the 400 drama....
Posted by simon on 7/15/2007 on simon's blog

It's cold, it's wet in Sheffield in the north of England, and nothing worked as planned....

world and Olympic 400-metre champion Jeremy Wariner stumbled at the start and, instead of keeping going, just stopped. Weird. Meanwhile Oscar "Blade Runner" Pistorius, the South African double amputee who is trying to convince international athletics authorities to let him compete at the Olympics, clattered round in the outside lane and finished last of the field in 47:65, two seconds behind winner Angelo Taylor.

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