Bladerunner Sprints to Victory

By sskrplaw on May 18, 2008 8:07 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

     

     
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 The Court of Arbitration for Sport (“CAS”) issued a landmark ruling that Oscar Pistorious, a double-amputee sprinter from South Africa, is eligible to compete in this year's Olympic games. The court held there was insufficient evidence the carbon-fiber prosthetics Pistorius uses as legs would give him an unfair advantage because they make him taller than he would naturally be and that may give him a better stride.

      Pistorious, nicknamed “the Bladerunner,”  said after the decision: "I don't think 'really happy' describes it. I'm ecstatic. The battle has been going on for far too long. It is a victory for sports in general. I think this day will go down in history."

     While Judges in sports law cases love to use puns and sports metaphors in their opinions, like Judge Schindlin did in her brilliant district court opinion in Clarett, the CAS panel may have gone a little too far when it wrote: “disability laws only require that an athlete such as Mr. Pistorius be permitted to compete on the same footing as others."

Alan Milstein 

 

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