{"id":3075,"date":"2011-08-12T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/2011\/08\/12\/blade-runner-oscar-pistorius-against-the-borlee-brothers\/"},"modified":"2011-08-12T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T09:44:00","slug":"blade-runner-oscar-pistorius-against-the-borlee-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/2011\/08\/12\/blade-runner-oscar-pistorius-against-the-borlee-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Blade Runner &#8216; Oscar Pistorius against the Borl\u00e9e brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">At the <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Belgacom Memorial Van Damme <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"><\/span>on 16 September, <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Oscar Pistorius<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\" lang=\"EN-GB\">, the fastest athlete in the world &quot;without legs&quot;, will compete against the <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Borl\u00e9e<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\" lang=\"EN-GB\">brothers. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">The 24-year old South African who was born without a fibula or tibia, had to have both feet amputated before he reached the age of one. He now runs with two special carbon-fiber prostheses. Because of these prostheses, he is called the <strong>&quot;Blade Runner&quot;<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">For a long time, the <strong>IAAF<\/strong> banned Pistorius from competing against &quot;normal&quot; athletes and his lap times were not officially approved. All of this was based on a study by a German professor who found that Pistorius was favored by those prosthetics. American researchers even estimated that Pistorius enjoys an advantage of even 10 seconds in the 400m!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">But the people close to Pistorius did not accept the decision by the IAAF and in appeal were proved right by the <strong>TAS<\/strong> in<strong>Lausanne<\/strong>. Ever since the South African regularly takes part in top level meetings and on 16.09 he will do so in <\/span><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Belgium<\/span><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">, for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><strong>Oscar Pistorius<\/strong> has a personal best of 45.07 (run in <strong>Lignano (ITA)<\/strong> on 19 July). Currently only <strong>Kevin<\/strong> and <strong>Jonathan Borl\u00e9e<\/strong> run faster&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Belgacom Memorial Van Damme on 16 September, Oscar Pistorius, the fastest athlete in the...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brussels"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3075"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}