People call Oscar Pistorius all kinds of things: disabled, differently abled, an inspiration, an egotist, even a cheat. One label they never give him is the one he wants most of all: a runner, just like any other. At the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, Pistorius will take his place on the blocks for the heats of the 400m. There will be 45 men in the field, some tall, some short, some squat, some slender, some from the first world, some from the third. And yet Pistorius is the one who will be singled out as "different", physically and athletically.
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