To: CarrotAndStick
Hmmm. Unfair advantage? I dunno. The real test of that will be if other athletes start having their legs chopped off and replaced with similar prosthetics so they can get the same advantage...
2 posted on
07/12/2007 9:57:41 AM PDT by
Hegemony Cricket
(It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the round in the chamber.)
To: Hegemony Cricket
Scientists working for the world's sports governing body will be analysing Pistorius to see whether his carbon-fibre limbs are giving him an unfair edge that allows him to perform beyond his natural ability. Essentially, they want to know if he's cheating. ...somewhere in Canada, Ben Johnson silently puts his name on the double amputee waiting list...
4 posted on
07/12/2007 9:59:29 AM PDT by
Carling
(It's Danny, Sir)
To: Hegemony Cricket
I remember a dust up in power lifting when a guy with no legs was, shall we say, kicking butt in the bench press competition for his weight class. I don’t remember how that was worked out.
7 posted on
07/12/2007 10:22:36 AM PDT by
dblshot
To: Hegemony Cricket; CindyDawg; usmcobra; aruanan; MJemison; FateAmenableToChange
18 posted on
07/13/2007 12:59:47 PM PDT by
CarrotAndStick
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