Pistorius is not human: he’s an extraterrestrial
Yesterday the International Olympic Committee refused Oscar Pistorius’ request to join Olympic Games held in Bejing next Agoust, as an athlete. How to disagree? Let fell apart all your loving kindness; done? Ok now let all that sort of “politically correct” do the same; done too? Ok! Now we can start to talk, as reasonable individuals
I come from a very similar ambient to the track field: the swimming pool! I read an interesting point made on Corsia4 Forum. What about a swimmer with no legs, whose new one are flipper-shaped? That would be obviously an advantage for the swimmer, who would, with the same training, obtain better results. That’s the matter we should focus on with more attention: training! Yeah! Because for most of you Olympics are just a running of a few seconds; a final, eight contenders for a title. And all of them are directed by De Coubertin’s motto. No, No, No!! That’s no more that way. Many things have changed. People who compete in the Games no more have their own job as doctors, bakers, traders etc but they are professional athletes.
That means that preparation involves the whole Olympic year; no, what am I saying? It involves a life! A life of sacrifices and i underline sacrifices in training.
No matter! For how much you could considerate emotionally Pistorius’ case, you could not deny the advantages he gets from his prosthesis. And who’s gonna talk about racism don’t know anything about muscle phisiology. When we run we consume oxygen, and produce lactate; not only in our thigh, but even on calf. Pistorius’ ones do not feel pain, and that’s a great psychical advantage. Not taking in account the physical permanent energetic state. Pistorius will never be as tired as a normal athlete! With a good training he could even become the next world record holder.
Today, on Gazzetta dello Sport, a notorious italian sportive newspaper, an analysis about advantages he could get has been presented by a universitary professor. It emerged that:
1. Elasticity of Pistorius’ leg receives an impulse from the ground which is twice the one received from human leg.
2. Pistorius’ prothesis weights 1,5 kilos, whereas human one weight on average 6 kilos
3. Minor nervous energy spent, so that it can be used for other muscles
4. Problem of lactate does not exist!
What do you think about it?
