Oscar Pistorius Cries Foul, Other Guy's Prosthetics Give Him Advantage!

Fantastic! That brings a huge smile to my face.

Still, the general public still see him as the Jackie Robinson of having no legs and running in the Olympics. A real shame since his cheating is more blatant than doping.

What a frikin hypocrit.

LOL times one thousand million million.

CRIPPLE FIGHT!!!

I think they should trade legs and run again. Fastest average gets the gold.

I didn't see any t43/t44 events above 400m.

If there are any, it's only a matter of time before times of 1:38 and 3:23. It seems to be like chairs, slow in the sprints but blazing fast over distance.

Bad Wiggins wrote:

It seems to be like chairs, slow in the sprints but blazing fast over distance.

Chairs are slow over any distance, idiot.

Any distance? Aren't wheelchairs about 35 minutes faster for a marathon?

Lopez Mongfong wrote:

Chairs are slow over any distance, idiot.

The wheelchair record for the Boston Marathon is 1:18:27. Care to tell us what runner has completed the course in a faster time?

So does that mean if Usain bolt lost his legs and competes in the paralympics he would have to put on short spring legs to appease oscar pistorius?

Lopez Mongfong wrote:

Bad Wiggins wrote:

It seems to be like chairs, slow in the sprints but blazing fast over distance.

Chairs are slow over any distance, idiot.

He wasn't talking about dining room chairs you big tool.

Haha!

Just because Oscar's cleared to use his blades, doesn't make it fine for someone else to abuse & make a very long blade length.

Your guys' arguments parallel that someone taking One-A-Day is a hypocrite for complaining about EPO.

If I read the report correctly, the blade length is determined by (amongst other things) estimating what the length of a particular athlete's legs would have been. Naturally the blades aren't all going to be the same length as some people are naturally taller than other people. Maybe Oscar was the runt of the litter.

ttc wrote:

Just because Oscar's cleared to use his blades, doesn't make it fine for someone else to abuse & make a very long blade length.

If Oliveira wants to compete at regular IAAF events his prostethics would come under a different kind of scrutiny.

But while he's at the paralympics their rules are the only ones which matter. Pistorious is free to "exploit" them in the same way. If the reason he doesn't is that he then wouldn't be able to use the same set of blades when he competes against able bodied athletes then that's just a consequence of him wanting to take part in what is really two different sports.

I do see one problem here, though. Single leg amputees might be at a significant disadvantage and should probably be in a separate category to the doubles.

Wow crazy last 75 meters.

No, it's like a person taking EPO complaining about another person taking more EPO.

VoR wrote:

If Oliveira wants to compete at regular IAAF events his prostethics would come under a different kind of scrutiny.

But while he's at the paralympics their rules are the only ones which matter. Pistorious is free to "exploit" them in the same way...

This gives Pistorious a point. He's talking about a *different* set of rules than IAAF's. Pistorious was barely olympic level- nothing to indicate unfair IAAF rules. But a paralympic opponent making up 8 meters in the final 100m of a 200m is very brow-raising. Pistorious didn't say he broke the rules, but that they may need a looking at- and I agree.

For those bashing Pistorious- are you only happy if he can't run fast, then unhappy if he's just fast enough to qualify for London? Seems like it.

Oliveira's start was terrible. I've never seen a worse start in a 200m race. With practice he could have run significantly faster.