Is it true that prosthetic limbs make you faster and if so why isnt the world record for events like the 100 meter faster than the regular?
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To have the 100 m record broken due to a prosthesis, you’d need to have one of the fastest men in the world (like Bolt) *also* need a very specific type of prosthetic… a pretty unlikely event.
The argument against Oscar Pistorius was that he would have been a borderline Olympian without the prosthesis, but that the ‘blade’ made him a little faster than he would have been otherwise.
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