Long jumpers jump from the same leg every time - in Markus Rehm's case, his take-off leg just happens to be the prosthetic one.

Plus (and this is the biggie with regards to all prosthetic appendages IHMO) - he has one leg which effectively cannot get injured. He's less likely to suffer any training setbacks during his build-up to major events. If his prosthetic leg snaps a week before the worlds, he can simply replace it. With a real leg, there'd be no chance for it to heal in time. Hell, he doesn't even have to deal with blisters on one of his feet.

Capitalization is the difference between...

and

Stephen Hawking invented black holes?

The bastard!

I live in the UK, you insensitive clod!

Probably not.

However, the people born between 1993 and 1997 who presumably didn't receive correspondence as a result of this mix up are still alive.

Not a problem! Just create more red tape to compensate... Soon, everyone will be a Lawyer!

Yeah, my bad for skimming your post. I assumed the quoted text was an independent statement, and didn't take it into its proper context.

Technically, that's a true statement regardless of whether it was the first...

The UK was initially assigned .gb and it's still reserved for us. But we got to use .uk too, as it made the transition from JANET NRS to DNS easier for our pre-existing academic network.

28475?!?

No Anonymous Coward may post a reply to a thread on the 26th day of the month using an Sinclair ZX81?!?