South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius has won the right to compete for a place in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.  The AP reports that 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.”

As part of the overruling of the ban, Oscar Pistorius asked to have independent testing done at MIT.  This story is special to me because I was living in Cambridge when random (able-bodied) people were bouncing down the street wearing the now-infamous cheetah blades. I can only assume that those people were either involved in conducting the tests or out for joyrides on blades of their own.  While this story is certainly a departure from what I typically contribute to Blogadilla, the ruling marks an important day for both disabled people and able bodied people as well.  Check out the story on ESPN.

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