won't be racing/competing/crawling/blading into the arena carrying the South African flag, thankyouverymuch.
The IAAF announced Monday that 21-year old South African Oscar Pistorius can't 'run' in any IAAF events -- which means he can't run in pretty much anything, seeing as how Pistorius runs, uh, you know, on a track in a track and field event. Home Depot doesn't sponsor many track meets, you see. This means, oddly enough, that a man who can still run the 400 meters in under 47 seconds despite no, you know, effing lower legs is barred from the Olympics. Have to protect the Olympics' reputation, after all.
A German scientist -- whose acumens are always used for the greater good -- was nice enough to take the time and effort to find out that Pistrorius's fake legs provide him a clear competitive advantage over those athletes who have their own lower legs and feet to work for them. If only Barry Bonds had received said memo.
So instead of this:
(I usually hate Nike commercials but come on, that's cool)
This summer, we'll get lots of this:
Wonder what choking Industrial age smog does to an athlete?
3 comments:
I read that article this morning at my internship. Working there has taught me a lot about having understanding and sensitivity for those with disabilities. Despite all that, I still feel that if those blades actually do give him a whopping 30% energy edge on other runners, his results cannot be properly compared against other more able-bodied runners. That doesn't mean that I don't think he should be prevented from running in the races at all. Who knows how many times the German doctor ran his trials, or how he calculated those results? The article left me with a lot of unanswered questions.
That much said, I actually like the "Bird's Nest" stadium, as people are calling it. Thanks to its booming economy, China's art & design industries have been working in overdrive. There's a lot of new, funky construction going on over there, and American design firms are making a killing. Anyhow, I bet if you erected a lot of really big fans to blow the smog away, the building would look a lot better.
I guess that the Olympic committee wants to get the crap beat out of them by a guy with no legs...
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