Has there ever been a more disappointing finish to a story than this one?
South African double-amputee Oscar Pistorius strikes fear into the hearts of able-bodied athletes (and mentally weak media) everywhere with his allegedly unfair advantage -- the blades he calls legs -- and triggers an international debate about the fairness of his inclusion in the 2008 Olympics.
And then he doesn't make it into the 2008 Olympics.
Pistorius gave it a great shot. This blog entry is no knock on him. He came within less than a second of reaching the Olympic-qualifying time in the 400-meter dash. But he fell short, so short that South Africa didn't put him onto its mile relay team -- even as an alternate -- and so now the story is finished.
Serves all of us right. We get up in arms so easily. What a hoot we are.
