A dream denied?

• Position: SPORTS - Oscar Pistorius

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Oscar Pistorius, a doubte-amputee sprinter from South Africa, has been ruled ineligible to compete in this summer's Olympics in Beijing. [See Upfront's Oct. 1, 2007, cover story.] Pistorius's severely deformed legs were amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old. Now 21, he sprints on specially designed prosthetics catted Cheetahs. But a scientific study for the international. Association of Athletics Federations (I.A.A.F.)--the world governing body of track and field--determined that Pistorius's carbon-fiber legs give him an...