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Oscar Pitorius fails to qualify for the Olympics

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It seems like the endless legal struggle to be allowed to compete in the Olympics took its toll on cyborg sprinter Oscar Pistorious — he didn’t qualify for the South African Olympic team on Wednesday, after failing to run the 400 under the 45.55 second minimum required to make the trip to Beijing. Interestingly, Pistorious’s 46.25-second time was his best ever, even though critics claimed that the double-amputee’s “Cheetah” prosthetics allowed him to use only 25 percent of the energy used by traditional runners. That’s not the last we’ll see of Oscar, though — he says he’s happy with his season’s results, and he’ll be back to try out for the 2012 Games in London.

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Original post by Nilay Patel

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