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Hello and welcome to Newsround live at the Paralympic Games in East | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
London. I'm Ricky and I've got all the action from day five at the | :00:31. | :00:41. | |
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Games. I'll be taking charge of things | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
back here in the studio. Stay tuned for the dramatic whale rescue off | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
the East Coast of Scotland. And find out why a prince is | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
abseiling down Western Europe's tallest building. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
It has been another day for Paralympics GB, but right now the | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
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one man everyone is talking about is Oscar Pistorius. He missed out | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
on getting the gold. He is famous for running fast thanks to the | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
impressive blades, but he was beaten by Brazil's Alan Oliveira. | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
Oscar Pistorius said the race was unfair because Alan's blades are | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
longer. Oscar Pistorius, probably the most | :01:22. | :01:29. | |
recognisable Paralympian on the planning et. The blade runner won | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
four Paralympic golds. This year he became the first double amputee to | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
compete against able bodied athletes at Olympic Games. | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
COMMENTATOR: Here comes Oscar Pistorius. He holds the world | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
record for the 200 meters and he has never been beaten. | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
COMMENTATOR: Oscar Pistorius is in front. He is in front by a long way. | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
So when Alan Oliveira crossed the finish line in front, he wasn't | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
happy. After the race, he said that Alan Oliveira's blades were too | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
long which meant he could run faster. He said it made the race | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
unfair and called for the international Paralympic committee | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
to investigate. The IPC say they check all athletes | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
before the start of any race and they had no problem with Alan | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
Oliveira's artificial legs. What is Oscar Pistorius complaining about? | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
There is a maximum height that athletes are allowed to have their | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
prosthetic legs. He feels that Alan Oliveira's legs are four inches too | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
high. Some of the things levelled at Oscar about is it fair? He has | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
widenedted debate to other athletes. Today, Oscar Pistorius said he was | :02:42. | :02:52. | |
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sorry for making the comments after What happened last night in the | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
stadium behind me has split opinion herement some think Oscar was a bad | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
loser. Others say he has a right to complain. | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
Alan Oliveira said he was sad and shaken by Oscar's comments. He said | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
he was running within the rules so that should be the end of the | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
argument. I have got a got guest with me. | :03:22. | :03:30. | |
Phil Sheridan, is a runner. Phil lost his legs in a road | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
accident about ten years ago, but has with him a blade like Oscar's. | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
Can we have a look at it, Phil? It is similar to Oscar's, but it is | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
short, but what's it like if you have four inches extra? If this was | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
four inches longer then I could take a longer stride, potentially | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
that could give me an advantage and I wonder if Oscar is asking for | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
this to be looked at and perhaps for rules to take that into account. | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
Maybe for a later Paralympics in Rio. | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
As time goes on, technology will only get better, is this a debate | :04:09. | :04:17. | |
that will keep rumbling on? I think so. It is a really exciting time. | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
We will see technology come on in leaps and bounds and I think this | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
is a debate that is good for sport, just like any any sport where | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
technology is involved. It is perhaps a little shame that there | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
has been a back lash against Oscar because he has been a great | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
ambassador for the sport and he has has gone a long way. | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
Phil, good talk to you. Ricky, you have got more chat about | :04:49. | :04:57. | |
Ellie Simmons not only has she won a gold and she smashed a world | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
record, but she did it today in the heats. The 17-year-old smashed | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
another record in the heats of the 200 meters medley. She qualified | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
fastest for the final this evening. She is favourite for gold. In | :05:12. | :05:19. | |
action right now is Lee Pearson in the equestrian. Lee was hoping to | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
get his eleventh gold and it is looking a little bit iffy. If he | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
did get his eleventh gold he would become one of the greatest | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
Paralympians along the same lines as Tanni Grey-Thompson. Have a look | :05:34. | :05:44. | |
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To say Lee Pearson dominated dressage at Paralympic Games is | :05:49. | :05:58. | |
like saying Usain Bolt is quick. The 38-year-old is the greatest | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
Paralympian ever. He won more golds than Sir Chris Hoy or Sir Steve | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
Redgrave. Before 2012, he competed in three Games taking home flee | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
golds. Up until Saturday, every time he got on his horse at a | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
Paralympic Games, he won a gold. Lee, if you you weren't already, | :06:18. | :06:28. | |
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you are the most successful equestrian? I think I am. | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
He can't move his ankles or knees and he found that riding horses | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
gave him free do. He started riding a donkey his patients got him and | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
the rest is history. When he was younger, he reckoned dressage was | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
boring. It is a good job he changed his mind because when it comes to | :06:45. | :06:53. | |
the Paralympics, Lee Pearson is a Lee Pearson is heading for a sill | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
silver, but we will keep you updated. We are still just behind | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
China. At least we are in second place with a total of 56 medals, 17 | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
gold, and that puts us second. We have got Ellie Simmons to look | :07:09. | :07:19. | |
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forward to. I will hand you back to Ore. | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
Time for a look at some of the other big stories from today and in | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
South Africa, 270 miners who were charged with the murder of their | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
work-mates during a demonstration are being released. 34 miners were | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
shot by police officers during a dispute about pay two weeks ago. | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
But a law from the apartheid era, when white people were kept | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
separate from black people, was used to charge other protestors | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
taking part in the demonstration. They were blamed for stirring up | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
the violence which led to the shootings. 100 of the miners will | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
be freed today, and the rest on Thursday. | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
Marine experts are trying to work out why 26 pilot whales stranded on | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
a beach near Anstruther in Fife this weekend. The number of | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
strandings has gone down, but this incident is unusual because of the | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
large number of whales that were beached in the same place. No one | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
knows why the strandings happen. Whales travel together in groups | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
called pods and follow one lead animal as they migrate around the | :08:21. | :08:31. | |
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world. If one is sick or injured and it comes ashore, they all do. | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
The the whole pod came to the shore. The rest of the pod aren't out of | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
danger yet. The worry is the whales could swim back towards shore so | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
the rescuers will be keeping watch to make sure they don't get into | :08:43. | :08:53. | |
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London's Shard is the tallest building in Western Europe. Today | :08:53. | :08:56. |