Amputee sprinters with j-blade prosthetic legs

[Jane_32]

http://www.nytimes.co...rsports/15runner.html

Do you think they have an unfair advantage against able bodied sprinters?

[Jane_32]

Btw there are 3 pages in my link.

[alexanderd]

I believe he has only raced aginst able bodied sprinters once and he finished last

[karenmac60]

My daughters pal has a pair of these
http://www.pro-jump.c...t-ProJump-Stilts.html
and he can run at some speed in them - his strides are huge compared to without, so I imagine there is a similarity.

[Booldawg]

'At 20, his coach says, he is like a five-speed engine with no second gear'.

What THE HELL does that mean?

[karenmac60]

I wondered that too Booldawg - does he go up to 6th gear? Or maybe despite having 5 gears he's stuck in first ;)