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Double Amputee sprinter Cleared to compete in Beijing

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Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee sprinter known as the fastest man on no legs, will be allowed to compete at the Beijing Olympics after a ban on his prosthetic limbs was overturned today.

The South African 400 metre runner had been forbidden from competing alongside able-bodied athletes because his high-tech carbon fibre blades were thought to give him a mechanical advantage.

But today the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that the 21-year-old South African blade-runner is eligible to race against Olympic athletes, ending the ban imposed by the IAAF.


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