Breathless magazine profiles notwithstanding, the International Association of Athletics Federations has ruled (after two postponements) that Oscar Pistorius, the famed double-amputee athlete who sprints on two blade-shaped carbon-fibre prostheses instead of feet, cannot compete in the 2008 Olympics. They determined that his prosthetic Cheetahs give him a substantial advantage over feet-having sprinters.
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