The Blade Runner
Last Sunday in Sheffield at the Norwich Union Super Grand Prix , I came face to face with the Blade Runner - South Africa paralympic star and double amputee Oscar Pistorius . Chatting with him you get a feeling of his passion to live his life to the fullest. A simple and very polite guy. I just wondered why so many people especially the arrogant British press refused to give this brave guy a chance to achieve the best he could ever be. Why they are so self preserving and so worried that this guy, born without fibulae in both legs due to a congenital condition, would one day beat their underachieving able-bodied athletes. Is it petty jealousy? or maybe overzealous xenophobia? The BBC also describes him as angry . I was at the mixed zone after his 400m race, when one disillusioned gentleman who works for UK Athletics gleefully announced the blade runner had been disqualified for running out of his lane in the 400m claiming "now he has nothing to prove" . Looking back at all th...