'Blade runner' makes unprecedented Olympic debut
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I completely support his inclusion and hope he can make the finals.
How this is allowed with able bodied athletes is beyond me.
If runners with double amputations consistently win gold medals and basically exclude those without double amputations then it’s the time to think about something (but not excluding those runners, I would rather suggest regulating their gear first – like the swimsuits that were more heavily regulated during the last years).
Anything else is a panicked overreaction by confused able-bodied people.
This is impossible...barring everyone chopping off their legs and getting a carbon fiber pair instead.
To say he has no advantage in races that can come down to hundreds of a second is crazy to me.
I think we have no right to exclude him at this stage.
I suppose that you think that nobody is crazy enough to voluntary cut his/her legs, only to win a medal. But there have been a lot of cases or drugs and hormone abuse in the past, with very bad long-term health effect. The only way to (tray to) stop that was the use of antidoping test at random times, all the year not only during the events.
And there were even more extreme cases in the past: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castrato