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Crossing a boundary

Submitted by Steph C on Sat, 2012/08/04 - 6:20am

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  • Sports / Athletes

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This is special. There was a dicumentary on Oscar some time ago, about how he has lived with the loss of his legs in childhood, and come to dominate 'disabled' running. There was also a long, long argument combined with a lot of research into whether his new legs gave him a competitive advantage over intact athletes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19126033

That argument has been resolved, and he is running in the main Olympics rather than in the Paralympics. In other words, acceptance as just another human being, if a bit quicker than most, rather than as some extension of his other difference.

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