Posts Tagged ‘Oscar Pistorius’
Sport - Friday, May 16, 2008 15:30 - 0 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.
Continue…
Most Popular Content
- Alternate domain extensions
- Jolene (White Stripes)
- Paul wins!
- Eina
- What's become of Plett??
- Oregan gets a new arsehole
- A bit of Opera
- Non-racist plasters
- June Blogwatch
- MTB'ing beautiful Sydney trails
- Battle at Kruger
- "I'm not disabled, I just don't have any legs."
- Oscar Pistorius still charging
- Tragedy in my Street
- Flight of the Conchords
- Test Your Awareness
- Seth Godin on Urgency
- Go Johnny
- Eish, where to now South Africa?
- Sorry for stealing your children
- Matt Mullenweg Interview
- Our Weapons were our Instruments
- Clem Sunter talks China and SA
- Alternate domain extensions
- Wordpress set for Act 2
- Goodbye Sir Ed
- [...] I wrote about his history here [...]...
- [...] video is awesome!!! I found it on zoutpiel.com - Battle at Kruger. Nature...
- I figured it out with my Afrikaans. But unfortunately found that .an domains ca...
- Hi
I looked at that site to register an .an domain but its in Dutch! How did...
- Yeah, some good domain names can be created. ;)...
- Hey dude - glad to hear at least one airline is cottoning onto the 'overweight' ...
- Crapsticks - just reading back through your posts now. That is, like, one helluv...
- Maaaaate....crikey... you need to pay attention... oh and watch out for those dr...
- Oi, achei teu blog pelo google tá bem interessante gostei desse post. Quando der...
- Hi Jin, They are a minmalist rock band from Detroit (Jack on guitar, Meg on drum...
