There was an article in the New York Times Magazine about Oscar Pistorius from South Africa who was born without a fibula. The fibula is the bone that runs from you knees to you ankles, alongside the tibia. The doctors told his parents that he would have to have his legs amputated. Now he is a world class runner and qualifying for the 2012 Olympics in London. Pistorius was not aloud in the 2008 olympics in Beijing. Pistorius has special prosthetic legs that are made for running so one could say that he has an advantage, but you still have to remember that he doesn't have legs.
Reading this article reminds me of skiing because if you are skiing and you come to a steep part of a trail, you could either take it slowly, or you could bomb down the mountain. Oscar Pistorius is the one who bombs down the mountain. Not literally of course because he has no lower legs, but figuratively. Oscar Pistorius does not shy away from challenges. He wants to run with people who do not have anything wrong with them. Pistorius ran in the 2004 Paraolympics and shortly before that, he didn't even know that there were Paraolympics. I'm not saying that Oscar Pistorius is in denial of his disability, and I never will. All I'm saying is that he wants to be treated like everyone else.
Above is a link to the article on the New York Times website.
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