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In the first of his exclusive podcasts in the run-up to the Beijing Games, Matthew Syed speaks to Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson who explains why she thinks the fastest man on no legs must miss out on the Olympics
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Are we supposed to infer from this that having no feet is a competitve advantage? What a load of rubbish, Chris is quite right-contact lenses are helping visually diasbled people. Is that ok? And the whole jamboree'll be here in four years time. Paid for us unwilling London tax payers. Groan...
Kate, London,
In a word, NO....
Calvin, London,
2 cars with different engines? Would never be fair on one of the 2 (doesn’t matter which) . Should a basketball, or football player wear contact lenses? Same argument me thinks, but where does it end?
Drugs? From contacts, to spring trainers, to wet suits we are already beyond human capabilities..
Chris, preston, uk
I think Pistorius should be allowed to participate, just so long as everyone else in his event is also allowed to wear springs.
Blaise Maclean, Bogota, Colombia
The men’s wheelchair T53/54 marathon world record stands at just 1:20:14. Do we allow this to stand as the overall marathon world record? No we don’t. It's not any form of prejudice, it's just common sense.
Steve, Manchester, UK
Yes I think he should be able to run why not good for him to be able to run on then it is wrong to stop him.
jessica thomas, wolverhampton, england
I'm sure that when dame Tammy broke all those records, she made sure she had the best constructed chariot she could buy.
peter olland, oslo, norway