The first athlete that runs at the Olympics with carbon prostheticThe 2012 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad, will have a hero with a remarkable life story. An athlete from South Africa qualified for the race of 400 meters, although he doesn’t have legs. He managed, with prosthetics, to become one of the fastest people on the planet.
“The dream that I have is to participate in the Olympics one day. I think that certainly will happen in 2012,” said Oscar Pistorius, athletes qualified for The 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
Not talking about the Olympics for disabled people. But of great Olympics, next year in London. Oscar will be the first athlete in the world to compete without legs. He managed to qualify and to Athletics World Championships in South Korea.
In life, not all start with equal chances. Oscar Pistorius and legs were stolen from blockstart. He stood up, he believed in, fought prejudice and mercy of men. But it gave great war with fate. And won!
Only a true athlete can understand the incredible will of the young South African. With an Olympic gold medal and nine world titles in the record, Gabriela Szabo is impressed by the story of Oscar.
“What could be nicer than to see an athlete with both legs amputated that runs with prosthesis on high-performance” believes Gabriela Szabo, the best athlete in the world in 1999.
Who would have imagined such a turn of fate, 24 years ago? South African athlete was born without the fibula in both legs. At 11 months, they have been amputated.
Call for sport and competition was too great. Even for him. He became an accomplished athlete. He played even rugby. But when asked to participate in competitions for people without disabilities, and complaints began. Suddenly, people have looked with pity or admiration, but with suspicion.
“I cannot imagine how it feels to look at prosthetics as an advantage,” said Oscar Pistorius, athletes qualified for the Olympics in London.
He was suspended from competition for two years. International Court of Arbitration ruled in favor of the Academy and returned to the track. The Olympics will have a chance to change history and become the fastest athlete in the world, with or without legs.
Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius (born 22 November 1986 in Sandton, Johannesburg, Gauteng) is a South African sprint runner. Known as the “Blade Runner” and “the fastest man on no legs”, Pistorius, who has a double amputation, is the world record holder in the 100, 200 and 400 metres (sport class T44) events and runs with the aid of Cheetah Flex-Foot carbon fibre transtibial artificial limbs by Ossur.
In 2007 Pistorius took part in his first international competitions for able-bodied athletes. However, his artificial lower legs, while enabling him to compete, generated claims that he has an unfair advantage over able-bodied runners. The same year, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) amended its competition rules to ban the use of “any technical device that incorporates springs, wheels or any other element that provides a user with an advantage over another athlete not using such a device”. It claimed that the amendment was not specifically aimed at Pistorius. After monitoring his track performances and carrying out tests, scientists took the view that Pistorius enjoyed considerable advantages over athletes without prosthetic limbs.
On the strength of these findings, on 14 January 2008 the IAAF ruled him ineligible for competitions conducted under its rules, including the 2008 Summer Olympics. This decision was reversed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on 16 May 2008, the Court ruling that the IAAF had not provided sufficient evidence to prove that Pistorius’s prostheses give him an advantage over able-bodied athletes
Source: Transhuman Medicine by on Aug 4, 2011
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About Össur
Oscar Pistorius is a world champion sprinter who has broken his own world records some 30 times. A fierce advocate of Life Without Limitations and a bilateral amputee, he is the first ever Paralympian to win Gold in each of the 100m, 200m and 400m sprints (Beijing 2008), and his international reputation as the "fastest man on no legs" is gaining momentum with every race.
The South African phenomenon has retained his position as world record holder in his category for the three top sprint events, setting a brand new record for the 400m in May 2011 at the Paralympic World Cup in Manchester, UK. Then, in July 2011, he made history in Italy with a personal best of 45.07 seconds for the men's 400m, a result that saw him qualify for the South African national team and the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea (Aug 2011). Here he made history yet again, running against non-disabled athletes and qualifying for the 400m semi-finals.
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Oscar Pistorius has been nominated for two 2012 Laureus World Sports Awards - the Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year Award and the Laureus Disability Award. See the other 2012 nominees on www.laureus.com.
Accompanying Oscar on his remarkable journey to the very pinnacle of his sport have been his prosthetic running feet – the Flex-Foot® Cheetah® from Össur. The unique design of these passive feet, which dates back to 1997, has become the gold standard internationally for elite athletes with limb loss. It has also given rise to Oscar's affectionate alias the Blade Runner.
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http://www.oscarpistorius.com/ his official website
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