One Legged Wrestler (Anthony Robles)

Reading the story about the one legged wrestler (Anthony Robles), it got my interested about other athletes that have had success while having some type of physical disadvantage. What really caught my interest, and a question that I wanted to explore on was Have there been any other instances in sports where having a physical disadvantage is considered cheating some people’s eyes. In Anthony robles case they said that his upper body was a lot bigger then all of the people in his weight class, and that was because he was missing a limb. Another knock against him was that wrestler rely on muscle memory to compete in their matches. Wrestling two legged people their whole life, they are use to doing certain things.
When someone has one leg, it messes up their muscle memory and its harder for them to do there moves. I found it interesting that after Oscar Pistourious, the south African 400-meter runner, start having success people …show more content…
Although people speculated about Anthony robles unfair advantage he was always able to compete in his sport. I think the difference was that Pristourious had an actual aid helping him, while robles didn’t. I found it interesting that in the article that a runner who went against Pristourious said, “The only people that are complaining, are the people that are losing to him.” I think that is very much true, when Anthony robles first started out wrestling nobody had a problem when he was losing. It was when he stated beating everyone that he became a problem. One point the article did make that soon as technology advances athletes that use prosthetic limbs will have an advantage one day. One scientist said,” Soon they will break all of the able bodied records”. For Prisourious to get back in the Olympics he ad to have a scientist back him up and appeal his case. The scientist said that Pristourious’s prosthetic libs were no advantage to