Pistorius getting too big for his blades?
To celebrate, Oscar Pistorius launched his own festival of irony.
“All I want is not to spend my career discussing my legs,” complained Pistorius once, tired of the insinuation that it was his disability that made his ability possible. It didn’t, when he was beaten in the Paralympic 200m, discourage him from immediately talking about Alan Oliveira’s. The man who gave much of his adult life to proving his prosthetics gave him no advantage over ‘able-bodied’ runners, now carping that others’ blades unfairly hinder him. We might, however, forgive Pistorius a slack moment in disappointment. Even this controversy has further bolstered the Games’ profile, one he has already done much to polish.
