Empowering. Paralympic champion Oscar Pretorius, a double amputee sprinter, has won the right to compete in the Olympic Games in Beijing after the court of arbitration of sport backed his appeal against a ban initially imposed by athletics authorities. Pistorius, 21, who lost both legs when he was a baby, runs on shock-absorbing carbon-fiber prosthetics. This has earned him the nickname “Blade Runner.”
Questions have popped up as to what then it would mean for sports when Blade Runner is allowed to compete. The struggle seems to be hinged on what exactly does “fairness” mean, and as much as it would be unfair to disallow a disabled to compete against a ‘normal’ playing field, is it then also fair for the ‘normal’ people to compete against a pair of shock-absorbing carbon-fiber running machines?
What do you think?
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