Sporting Decision
This is a good thing for sport, even if Oscar Pistorius is unlikely to run fast enough to qualify for the Olympics.
Pistorius, who had both legs amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old due to a congenital disorder, was cleared on Friday by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to use his prosthetic carbon-fibre limbs to compete in able-bodied events.
He can now attempt to qualify for this year's Beijing Olympics although his coach believes a more realistic target for the 21-year-old may be the 2009 world championships.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) had banned Pretorius in January, ruling that the prosthetics gave him an advantage over able-bodied athletes.
I do wonder, however, why someone who has always claimed that he was trying to play within the rules would wear prosthetic limbs called cheetahs. (Or perhaps that is just my Bahstin accent coming to the fore.)
Labels: cheetahs, disabled rights, Oscar Pistorius
