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Double-Amputee Pistorius Eligible for Olympics #
In case you haven’t been following along:
In January, athletics’ governing body the IAAF banned the 21-year-old South African from able-bodied events.
It was claimed Pistorius’ prosthetic limbs give him an unfair advantage, but he disagreed and went to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).
“I hope this silences the crazy theories circulating about my having an unfair advantage,” he said.
Cas said in a statement that the IAAF had not proved competition rules had been contravened.
“On the basis of the evidence brought by the experts called by both parties, the panel was not persuaded that there was sufficient evidence of any metabolic advantage in favour of the double amputee using the Cheetah Flex-Foot,” the statement said.