This guy really shouldnt be allowed to compete!!!
<HR style="COLOR: #fdde82" SIZE=1><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->I saw this guys story on HBO story outside the line and i was so disgusted with how the story was told. If you have competed in any kind of distance running then you have felt the pain or "burn" you get in your calf muscles.
This guys legs were amputated when he was 11 months old. His heart only has to pump blood to practically only 70% of his body!
While your legs are burning energy so fast they are producing acid, this guy is cruising along fine with his thigh muscles quickly punching the blood right back up to the heart for quick fresh new oxygenate blood.
Yet the argument on his bionic legs only focussed on that issue alone. "Do his bionic legs give him an advantage over the average runner?"
That is besides the point the man his cheating pure and simple!!!
Double-amputee Pistorius fails again to qualify for Olympics
Associated Press
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<!-- end page tools --><!-- begin story body --><!-- template inline -->ROME -- Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius missed out in another attempt to qualify for the Olympics on Friday, but sliced more than a second off his 400-meter time from last week.
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Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius missed out on another chance to qualify for the Olympics, finishing seventh in the 400 meter race at the Golden Gala meet Friday.
The South African finished in 46.62 seconds to place seventh in the 400 meter B race at the Golden Gala meet Friday. He must run a 45.55 to qualify for the Olympics.
Last week in Milan, in his first able-bodied race in nearly a year, Pistorius ran a 47.78. His lifetime best is 46.36.
"I felt this race was awesome, but I can still improve," he said. "After last week's race in Milan I was really worried and I was very nervous going in tonight."
Pistorius resumed training less than two months ago after a sports arbitration court ruled he was eligible to run in Beijing.
The court overturned a decision by the IAAF that Pistorius' carbon-fiber prosthetics gave him an unfair advantage and that he should be banned from the Olympics and any other able-bodied race.
On Sunday, Pistorius plans to run a 200-meter race in Lignano, Italy, "for fun," to work on his sprinting, then will make perhaps his final Olympic attempt in Lucerne, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
Pistorius said he still hopes to qualify for the Olympics but "it was always going to be a very difficult goal, I have to be realistic and I have to admit the chances are slim."
Pistorius has struggled to regain his form after spending most of 2008 away from training to concentrate on fighting the ban, which was lifted May 16.
His most realistic shot to compete in the Aug. 8-24 Beijing Games could be as part of South Africa's four-man relay, for which six team members are chosen.
Pistorius said he feels he probably must go under 46 seconds to make the relay.
"But even if the Olympic dream doesn't come down this time ... I'm still very happy," he said.
Either way, Pistorius plans to race in the Sept. 6-17 Paralympics in Beijing -- then focus on qualifying for the 2012 London Games.
Pistorius was born without fibulas -- the long, thin outer bone between the knee and ankle -- and was 11 months old when his legs were amputated below the knee.
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<HR style="COLOR: #fdde82" SIZE=1><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->I saw this guys story on HBO story outside the line and i was so disgusted with how the story was told. If you have competed in any kind of distance running then you have felt the pain or "burn" you get in your calf muscles.
This guys legs were amputated when he was 11 months old. His heart only has to pump blood to practically only 70% of his body!
While your legs are burning energy so fast they are producing acid, this guy is cruising along fine with his thigh muscles quickly punching the blood right back up to the heart for quick fresh new oxygenate blood.
Yet the argument on his bionic legs only focussed on that issue alone. "Do his bionic legs give him an advantage over the average runner?"
That is besides the point the man his cheating pure and simple!!!
Double-amputee Pistorius fails again to qualify for Olympics
Associated Press
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<!-- end page tools --><!-- begin story body --><!-- template inline -->ROME -- Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius missed out in another attempt to qualify for the Olympics on Friday, but sliced more than a second off his 400-meter time from last week.
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Shaun Botterill/Getty ImagesDouble-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius missed out on another chance to qualify for the Olympics, finishing seventh in the 400 meter race at the Golden Gala meet Friday.
The South African finished in 46.62 seconds to place seventh in the 400 meter B race at the Golden Gala meet Friday. He must run a 45.55 to qualify for the Olympics.
Last week in Milan, in his first able-bodied race in nearly a year, Pistorius ran a 47.78. His lifetime best is 46.36.
"I felt this race was awesome, but I can still improve," he said. "After last week's race in Milan I was really worried and I was very nervous going in tonight."
Pistorius resumed training less than two months ago after a sports arbitration court ruled he was eligible to run in Beijing.
The court overturned a decision by the IAAF that Pistorius' carbon-fiber prosthetics gave him an unfair advantage and that he should be banned from the Olympics and any other able-bodied race.
On Sunday, Pistorius plans to run a 200-meter race in Lignano, Italy, "for fun," to work on his sprinting, then will make perhaps his final Olympic attempt in Lucerne, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
Pistorius said he still hopes to qualify for the Olympics but "it was always going to be a very difficult goal, I have to be realistic and I have to admit the chances are slim."
Pistorius has struggled to regain his form after spending most of 2008 away from training to concentrate on fighting the ban, which was lifted May 16.
His most realistic shot to compete in the Aug. 8-24 Beijing Games could be as part of South Africa's four-man relay, for which six team members are chosen.
Pistorius said he feels he probably must go under 46 seconds to make the relay.
"But even if the Olympic dream doesn't come down this time ... I'm still very happy," he said.
Either way, Pistorius plans to race in the Sept. 6-17 Paralympics in Beijing -- then focus on qualifying for the 2012 London Games.
Pistorius was born without fibulas -- the long, thin outer bone between the knee and ankle -- and was 11 months old when his legs were amputated below the knee.
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