In May 2007, the New York Times featured Oscar and the Cheetah Flex-Foot in "An Amputee Advantage?", illustrates theory about reputed advantage.
Prosthetics will be presented in several talks this spring 2009.
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Monday, 14 January 2008
Oscar Pistorius - Independent Scientific study concludes that cheetah prosthetics offer clear mechanical advantages
Monte Carlo - The IAAF has received the results of an independent scientific study carried out by Professor Peter Brüggemann at the German Sport University in Cologne. This study made a biomechanical and physiological analysis of long sprint running by a double transtibial amputee athlete Oscar Pistorius (RSA) using “cheetah” prosthetics, and also compared this athlete with five able-bodied athletes who are capable of similar levels of performance at 400m.
The tests, which took place on Monday 12 and Tuesday 13 November in the Institute of Biomechanics and Orthopaedics, were initiated by the IAAF with the approval and participation of Oscar in order to see whether the prosthetics used by him should be considered as technical aids which give him an advantage over other athletes not using them, in contravention of IAAF competition rule 144.2.*
