Thursday, January 17, 2008

Total badass denied a place in the olympics

Posted by Josh in Handikickass, IAAF, Olympics, Oscar Pistorius, Prostheitics, Running

The photo above is of one of the biggest badasses alive, Oscar Pistorius. He, as a double amputee, was deemed too fast to compete in the Olympics. According to the International Association of Athletics Federation, Pistorious does’t actually run too fast, he just runs too efficiently.  He could run using Cheetah Prosthetics “at the same speed as the able-bodied sprinters with about 25% less energy expenditure” and “the mechanical advantage of the blade in relation to the healthy ankle joint of an able bodied athlete is higher than 30%.” Pistorius is appealing the decision, and it is still up in the air. I, for one, welcome our new “double transtibial amputee athlete” overlords.

via Engadget

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