Michael Phillips
Tuesday January 15, 2008
The Guardian

Oscar Pistorius says he will look at every legal loophole to find a way into the Olympic Games after the International Association of Athletics Federations confirmed yesterday that his prosthetic limbs are a technical aid and he cannot run in their events.The IAAF said the South African double amputee has too great an advantage over able-bodied competitors when he competes on J-Shaped Cheetah limbs. Pistorius, 21, the paralympic 200m champion and triple world record-holder, spent two days in Cologne undergoing tests paid for by the IAAF with Gert-Peter Brueggemann, a bio-mechanics professor. One of the key findings announced by the IAAF from the report was that the prosthetic blade used 25% less...