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Old 07-16-2007
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Oscar Pistorius

As most of the world already knows about him, he is the double amputeed runner from South Africa. The story of this guy is amazing. Get both his legs amputeed and then becomes a professional runner, with carbon fibre transtibial artificial limbs. To me, the next best story to this, that I know about, was the kicker with only a half a foot.

But after listen to Sports News radio, they brought up a very important question, should he be able to participate in the Olympics. I wanna hear what you guys have to say before I give me opinion on it.
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Okay, I guess no one really has an opinion, but I believe this could become a pretty good debate.

Here's how I stand. I feel he should be able to be in the olympics unless the adjust the carbon fibre transtibial artificial limbs to make them even with real legs. They get an advantage with using that, and Countries that have an overstock of population and money could use that to there advantage.

Could you imagine China, for example, chopping off the legs of athletes so they can increase there speed. It's not like they don't have enough extra people to do it. It's insane. So, eventually, the olympics, which I don't watch much anyways, will become more of "Who can make the more artificial athlete" rather then what it is now.

But like I said, it's great what this guy has accomplished, but I feel like a line needs to be drawn somewhere.
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They should make a bionic olympics...
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No... He should not be able to compete in the olympics.
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