10 May 2011: Will the South African double amputee Oscar Pistorius reach the London Olympic Games in 2012? He’ll certainly be at the Paralympic Games a couple weeks later. Oscar’s dream to reach the ‘A’ qualifying standard of 45.55 seconds for the 400 metres remains 0.06 seconds short of the mark, should South Africa grant him a 2012 place. In spite of his personal best of 45.61 seconds being achieved at the Provincial Championships in Pretoria in March of this year, Pistorius had earlier suffered a rare defeat in the 100 metres final at the IPC Paralympic Athletics World Championships in New Zealand in January – first loss in seven years over 100 metres. The lengthy battle with the IAAF regarding Oscar’s carbon fibre prosthetic running blades was taken to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in 2008 and finally ruled in his favour. Prior to the 2012 Olympics there still remains this year’s goal of competing in the able-bodied IAAF World Championships in Athletics in South Korea in August.