a 100-meter sprinter, swinging his leg faster than Pistorius. But they used television footage of Dix rather than the standard, high-speed research video generally used to make such measurements. "The differences here are relatively small, so doing it with TV video ...
He's a national hero in South Africa and made headlines around the globe when he became the first-ever double amputee to run in the Olympic Games in London last summer. Pistorius is nicknamed "Blade Runner" because he races with carbon fiber prosthetic blades....