Run, Oscar, Run!

Oscar Pistorius, the paralympian often called "The Fastest Man on No Legs" or "The Blade Runner," has won the right to complete with non-disabled athletes. Pistorius would like to perform as a sprinter, but may end up being on the South African relay team for the Beijing Olympics. He fully intends to compete in London in 2012, as well as taking on any and all international competitions between now and then.

Pistorius is an amputee with incredible strength and agility who was denied the right to compete based on the fact that he wears prosthetics that a German study determined to give him an unfair advantage. A different study by MIT researchers proved differently, and Pistorius is now able to compete. Video of a competing Pistorius can be found all over the web and is worth searching for. In one interview he says that he is often asked what it is like to run with prosthetics. His answer to that question is, "How does it feel to run with legs?"