Just read this on another forum


Oscar Pistorius has the "go" to compete in the Olympics (as opposed to paraolympics) despite his bladerunner prosthetic legs giving him a significant advantage over "4 limbed athletes" (bbc's words not mine!)

What do you think? Discuss

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Next you'll see prosthetic dolphin attached to a athlete in the swimming

There's a time and a place, I don't think prosthetic limbs are right in the Olympics

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My position on this is that I do not believe that the Olympic Committee are the appropriate officiating authority in this particular case.

When establishing or adjudicating on the rules governing the specifics re sporting equipment, duration of event, distance to be completed i.e. the quantifiable physics of sporting events then yes the Olympic Committee are the rightful board of governors.

But their ability to make moral, legal and above all common sense judgements has often failed.

For example, are they right to deny a sovereign nation the chance to compete at the Olympics as they continue to do so and are doing so at the London Olympics. Surely this fundamentally contradicts not only the founding rules of the basis of team's being represented by nationhood, but principally the spirit of the Olympian event.

In addition they deny the spectator the honour of overtly supporting his/her nation by not allowing them the right to carry into Olympic stadia their own national flag for fear of upsetting the host nation or any participating national team. The sight of a flag of a nation denied access to the Olympics being seen as an embarrassing "protest". The modern Olympics Committee have always placed appeasement and funding above any nation's legitimate right to compete.

Therefore it comes as no surprise that they have made yet another gross error of judgement in the case of Oscar Pistorius.

As an athlete he has displayed courage and fortitude of Olympian proportions and timings that meet the qualification standards. Yet, in the races in which he will compete all men will not start as physical equals without advantage or disadvantage, in accordance with the founding Olympic principles. It can be rationally argued that the athlete is using an aid to his performance without which he could not achieve his present qualifying results - in as much, for example, as taking a performance enhancing drug.

The case should have been decided by the short distance runners themselves on a closed secret ballot, and not the governing body. In the same way that nation states competing have taken decisions in the past not to attend the Olympic Games for moral grounds, most notably of all in recent times the boycott of the Moscow games.

It is not for the Olympic Committee to force nations to compete at any Olympics games or to deny a sovereign nation access to any Olympic games. And, it is not the Olympic Committees duty to wave the rules and principles set by the founding Olympian fathers re that athletes competing do so on an equal basis without advantage or disadvantage given to any competitor.

Should those statements of Olympian principles be subject to change, then change must be commissioned through the broadest possible electorate - that being the athletes themselves and not the miniscule modern Olympic Committee.

I bet he has a disabled badge so he can park in a disabled bay.
I rest my case.

Oh no , this is the car free Olympics, he'll get a free bus pass

I can see this from both sides.

1 I am full of admiration for anyone like him who can do that.

But...
2 Considering the way the authorities clamp down and police any sort of enhancement for athletes be it drugs or equipt that isn't allowed I am thinking he shouldn't be allowed to compete in this event.

His equipment isnt so much enhancing his performance as enabling it it, should the other runners be banned from wearing shoes, spikes?


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