No legs? No problem. CAS saves IOC from Olympic embarrassment.

By
Andrew
on May 17, 2008 12:37 AM | | Comments (253) | TrackBacks (0)

I'm pretty sure I've written about this before, but I think this is one of the few times that CAS has been used for good rather than as a last appeal for doped up track stars. The NYT covered this recently, and now they bring us the latest chapter:


        The watershed ruling made the runner, Oscar Pistorius, the first amputee to successfully challenge the notion that his carbon-fiber prosthetics gave him an unfair advantage and assured his right to race against able-bodied athletes in the Olympics, should he qualify. Previously barred from competing in such races by track and field's world governing body, Pistorius will continue to stoke the debate over the competitive issues created by evolving technology in sports.


I'm glad that the Court of Arbitration for Sport came down on the side of the athlete, not the bureaucracy. For once.



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