It's about these questions around technology and performances that we would like to debate, setting out in particular the case of Oscar Pistorius, and the controversy that it raised just before the last Paralympics (click video link below: pistorius controversy)
Oscar Pistorius is a 400m runner suffering from bony difformities. He has been amputated under both knees. In consequence, he has very efficient prosthesis which are the result of a high level technology. His performances activated him to ask for the right to compeet in the same class than fit athletes. His request is at the origin of a controversy within international sport authorities about the hypothetical advantage he could obtain thanks to those prosthesis.
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