About Idea of the Day
“Idea of the Day” is a blog by Tom Kuntz and other editors of the Week in Review highlighting the most interesting writing we’ve come across lately on the Web. We’re generalists, so consider this a thinking person’s grazing buffet.Today’s idea: Technology and the marketplace have transformed the artificial limb from emblem [...]
By Matt McGeehan, Press Association Sport
Fate conspired against ‘the fastest man with no legs’ this year, with a near-fatal boat crash and a spell behind bars book-ending a summer that fell short of expectations.
Double amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius, a four-time Paralympic champion, had a prolonged battle with the International Amateur Athletics Federation over his prosthetic [...]
Carbon-fibre blades like those worn by sprinter Oscar Pistorius do not give an edge over able-bodied athletes
Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, who wears carbon-fibre blades, lost his bid to compete against able-bodied athletes at the Beijing Olympics.
Photograph: Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images
Prosthetics worn by disabled sprinters confer no speed advantage, scientists have found. If anything, they may [...]
By: Janice Tai
Singapore's own "blade runner" Md Shariff Abdullah
Sportsman Md Shariff Abdullah takes marathon races in his stride, beating many others. What sets him apart is his prosthetic left leg.
Furthermore, he is poised to be Singapore’s first blade runner, just like South African Paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius, once he gets a special prosthetic leg [...]
Critical new data disclosed
Dallas, TX (June 29, 2009) — A team of experts in biomechanics and physiology that conducted experiments on Oscar Pistorius, the South African bilateral amputee track athlete, have just published their findings in the Journal of Applied Physiology. Some of their previously confidential findings were presented to the Court of Arbitration for [...]
The Paralympic World Cup, sponsored by BT until 2012, takes place over the next six days in Manchester, with more than 400 athletes from 40 countries competing in their first elite international test since the Paralympic Games in Beijing.
By Gareth A Davies
Sunny outlook: [...]
Amputee, 5, is already a world beater on her bionic blades
By Tamara Cohen
Last updated at 7:29 AM on 19th May 2009
He has been called the fastest man on no legs. But Oscar ‘Blade Runner’ Pistorius got a run for his money when five-year-old Ellie Challis challenged him to a race on their bionic feet. [...]
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