This one has me scratching my Noggin.....

I am a Man with a fairly damm good perspective of "Good-Bad, Right-Wrong"...and all those niggling little grey areas....

But this one.....I think I'll have to abstain.


Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius won his appeal Friday and can compete for a place in the Beijing Olympics.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that the 21-year-old South African is eligible to race against able-bodied athletes, overturning a ban imposed by the International Association of Athletics Federations.

Sounds Great, Is Great....an achievement that deserves Praise and Respect. Pistorius holds the 400-meter Paralympic world record of 46.56 seconds, 1.01 second slower than Olympic Qualifying.

But.....here's that niggling "doubt" that I have.....How fast would he be with Flesh and Blood legs?

I'm a Track Coach. I friggin' Love the Sprints and Middle distance races. The 400meters is arguably the most physically grueling of all the races. It's not "quite" middle distance, where strategy and endurance are king.

It is an all out, stay in your lane, everything you've got Sprint.....for 400 friggin' meters.

The legs go to mush by turn four, and you still have another 100 meters to go....

See the problem here? Springs don't get tired. Muscle mass that isn't there, doesn't require Oxygen....

Thus....I'm abstaining. He still has to cut a full second off his time to be considered. No opinion here from this Coach. Except that.....

He's got his time now, with the "Mechanicals" he's been using. He should be required to race with those same devices. 'Cuz I'm sure that there's some Biomechanical Engineer from ACME that could speed him up a few seconds.....

Now That wouldn't be fair.

Would it?

Wollf