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Amputee Barred From Olympics (prosthetics are getting good)
- mhb 19y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=98193 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=98193
- eru 19y agoPerhaps you had just bad timing, bad luck - or you should learn to write better titles?
- uuilly 19y agoAnd I'm not allowed to compete in the marathon using roller-blades. The reason this is a story is that he is perceived to be a victim. I'm psyched he's running that fast though. For a while I really wanted to work in prosthetics. Would be satisfying...
- eru 19y agoI wonder where this would have lead had he been allowed to compete - and won. Professional athletes are already crippling there bodies with drugs. Would someone have deliberately and literaly crippled himself to get an edge (i.e. prosthetics)? Professional sports make me sick. They are selling their body. I do have more understanding for prostitution than this. (Nothing against double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius - he just games the system - he surely did not set out to lose his legs in the first place.)
- mattmaroon 19y agoWhat next? Are they going to ban guys who take steroids from playing in the MLB?
- carpal 19y agoThe amputee wasn't barred from the olympics. This particular set of prosthetics was banned. That guy can still run in the olympics with any other set of prosthetic legs but this one. It was just deemed that these gave him too much of an unfair advantage.