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Should this guy be competing in the able-bodied Olympics? [View all]
I say no because he uses regular prosthetics except to race.
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so, with the "unfair advantage" ... he didn't meet the standards in 2008, like everybody else did ..
zbdent
Aug 2012
#3
It seems the people "The Court of Arbitration" best qualified for these type of decisions
JonLP24
Aug 2012
#5
sprinters from across the globe are lining up to have their legs removed in order to replace them..
frylock
Aug 2012
#34
Vehicles aren't prosthetics, and I strongly doubt he considers himself "disabled." (nt)
Posteritatis
Aug 2012
#18
Several years of arguments in the track world about it point to "yes." (nt)
Posteritatis
Aug 2012
#17