{"id":45205,"date":"2012-09-10T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/entry\/?guid=9abc34458fbc7e89255a4de128b109a8"},"modified":"2012-09-11T11:14:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T11:14:27","slug":"the-blade-runners-oscar-pistorius-richard-whitehead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?p=45205","title":{"rendered":"The Blade Runners – Oscar Pistorius & Richard Whitehead"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The focus here is on the ever rising stars of the 2012 London Paralympics sporting world. <\/span>
Dubbed the \u2018Super Humans\u2019 these are all inspiring people with incredible stories.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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Richard Whitehead is a Blade Runner. He<\/span> is a British athlete who runs with fixed prosthetic legs made of carbon fibre called blades which enables him to run as he was born with a double above knee congenital amputation.<\/span> Loving sports he participated in swimming and gymnastics and took up ice sledge hockey, representing Great Britain in the 2006 Winter Paralympics. He then decided to run the New York marathon in 2004 before running a single mile <\/span><\/span> ‘I had no competitive running experience at all because up until then, the technology for prosthetic legs was very expensive… I was inspired by Terry Fox<\/a>..<\/i><\/span><\/span>a single legged amputee.. with cancer. After losing his limb Terry attempted to run from East to West of Canada.  His strength and determination was inspiration and showed that with a big heart and the will to succeed, you can overcome barriers put in front of you.’<\/i><\/span><\/span>
On the 1st September 2012 Richard entered the 200m final in the Paralympics with a headache and running a temperature. Despite all that he ran the race of his life. He run took him from 5<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> place to 1<\/span>st<\/sup><\/span> and he ecstatically claimed his Gold medal. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Whitehead has a tattoo stating \u2018Cometh the hour Cometh the Man\u2019 and cometh he did as his awesome race meant he not only won but also broke the 200m world record. Richard evidences admirable mountains of determination, courage and drive, from being told as a school boy he could not join in the sports lessons due to his disability, to being told by the International Paralympic Committee that he could not run in the London Paralympic Marathon due to classification alterations. The marathon was the race he had trained so hard for, set his sights on and which he loved. In Rome 2009 he was the first ever leg amputee to break the 3-hour barrier for the marathon. His website is called ‘marathon champ’. <\/span>His switch from marathon running to sprinting, in one year was no mean feat.<\/span><\/p>\n

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‘I am living proof, that with enough desire and determination, any obstacle can be overcome. <\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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He remarked, like a triumphant Caesar at the Coliseum, <\/span>‘I came, I saw, I conquered’ <\/i><\/span><\/div>\n