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Archive Home > 2008 > May > 17 > Disabled athlete eligible to compete in Olympics

Disabled athlete eligible to compete in Olympics

By Joshua Robinson and Alan Schwarz / The Bulletin
May 17, 2008

When an international panel, the Court of Arbitration for Sport, ruled Friday that a double-amputee sprinter was eligible to compete in the Beijing Olympic Games, the stage was set for the crumbling of a sports boundary.

The watershed ruling made the runner, Oscar Pistorius of South Africa, the....

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