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’Pistorius is wrong’

The Guardian
Sprinter Oscar Pistorius's claim on Sunday that his rival, Brazilian Alan Oliveira, had an unfair advantage is not just painfully ironic, the data does not bear him out, states the
Guardian sportblog.
Talk about irony. Within minutes of being upset by Oliveira in the final of the men'sT44 200m, the South African claimed that he was "not running a fair race". The crux of his argument, which he also stated before even losing the final, is that his rivals were artificially extending the length of their legs: "It's very clear that the guys have got very long strides".
To add to that case, he was quoted after the final as saying: "I can't compete with Alan's stride length."
Now, let me (the blogger) start by saying there is a lot more to running than stride length. If all it took was big strides, then the running world would be dominated by the tallest men, and shorter runners like Tyson Gay would stand no chance.
What matters is not just stride length, or height, but rather the length of the leg relative to height, and the ground contact length, which is a function of the leg length (partly). Plus there is force applied to the ground, leg turnover rates and all those things, but let's take one component at a time here.
So, since Pistorius has made a point to
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FROM PAGE 16 emphasise how long his rivals' strides are I rewatched the race and did the obvious thing: I counted the strides.
It turns out that Pistorius took 92 steps during the race (2.2m per stride), and Oliveira took 98 steps to win gold (2m per stride). To break it down further: in the first 100m, Pistorius took 49 steps (2.0m per stride), with 43 steps in the straight (2.3m per stride).
Oliveira, on the other hand, took shorter strides: 52 in the first 100m (1.92m each) and 46 inthesecond 100m (2.2m each).
So, a simple count shows that Pistorius has longer strides than Alan, and they are consistently longer — on the bend, and in the straight, for those who are wondering. It's Oliveira who "can't compete with Oscar's stride length". His faster speed, then, is the result of faster leg movement, because speed, as you will appreciate, is the result of stride length and stride rate.
And here again, let me repeat, there is much more to the debate than simply the stride length, as 1'11 get to shordy. But the point here is that once again, you have this misinformation from Pistorius, and the media are too lazy to interrogate it further, they just report and allow the uninformed debate to go on. Already on Twitter I have got numerous responses saying "Look how long Oliveira's stride is”! But it's not—it'sshorterthan Pistorius's, bysomemargin.