Dean’s Leadership Forum on Diversity and Sports: Marie Hardin, “Sports, Minorities and the Media” panel
Posted by Jody Roselle on March 27, 2009
Marie Hardin, Ph.D., associate professor and associate director at the Penn State John Curley Center for Sports discusses the case of Oscar Pistorius, a South African sprinter and double-amputee, and the IAAF’s declaration that Mr. Pistorius’ flex-step prosthetics gave him an unfair advantage in races. The IAAF announcement came shortly before the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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