Man with No Legs Runs 100 Meters in Under 11 Seconds

Published: July 26, 2007, 7:50 am

Tags: weird science, amputee, athlete, athletes, beijing, cheetahs, competition, legs, odd, olympics, oscar pistorius, prosthetic, prosthetics, race, science, technology, unusual, weird

South Africa's Oscar Pistorius, a man with no legs can sprint 100 Metres in 10.91 Seconds — and he’s vying for the Olympics in Beijing. Athlete Oscar Pistorius, age 20, is a double amputee — who runs on carbon fiber feet — that may be too fast for his own good. He’s already achieved gold medal status in the Paralympics, but aspires to run in the Olympics, Beijing just like any other man. There’s been much contention whether he should be permitted to run in the Olympics against able-bodied athletes, because they feel he’s not your typical man, rather, an athlete whose prosthetics give him an unfair technological advantage. It’s ludicrous that a handicapped person would be seen as more abled than disabled. It’s a debate rife with raw emotion over a tale of the conflict of technology and sport and what we understand as even competition or fair play, reports The Hindu. Pistorius was born without fibulas and underwent double

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