Kadath:
That's an interesting view that I hadn't ever considered. I have never considered the legitimacy or "naturalness" of sports by whether I could hope to compete.
I guess I thought that the records and competition were interesting because they signify what the human race is capable of at its extremes. That's my interest in purity - doping or drug use makes the competition moot because you are then dealing not with the extremes of human performance, but with the extremes of altered human performance.
That said, in terms of defining the current situation, it doesn't seem like this guy is running in the sense that others are. He's just doing a different activity. If there was a track and field event in which athletes regularly wore prosthetics such as stilts or spring loaded shoes, then I'd probably think that the activities were comparable.
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