Sport - Friday, May 16, 2008 15:30 - 2 Comments

Oscar Pistorius still charging

Fantastic news for Oscar, he gets the green light to compete with able body athletes, sprinting around a track at the highest level.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport have ruled against an IAAF ruling to prevent him competing in the Olympics. His personal best time for 400m is 46.5 secs and he needs to run a bit under 46 secs to run an SA qualifying time.

I wrote about his history here

The details of the latest on the ruling:

South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius has won an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) that has given him an Olympic Games lifeline.

The disabled 21-year-old sprinter runs on specially adapted carbon fibre blades after having his legs amputated below the knee.
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