Analysis Of Nancy Gibbs's Article 'Cool Running'

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In her article “Cool Running” Nancy Gibbs discusses the controversy behind the paraplegic athlete Oscar Pistorious. More specifically what’s considered a level playing field? Should someone competing with disabilities that make the competition easier, be able to compete with others who have no disabilities? Yes, disabled athletes should be able to compete with regular athletes. “Democracy presumes that we’re all created equal; competition proves we are not, or lese every race would end in a tie.” By Nancy’s definition of democracy everyone is created equal, as stated, which makes competing to see who’s the best obsolete. Then why when competing do we try to make it seem that everyone is equal? Should someone like Oscar, whose prosthetic