SPOILER: My Greatest Olympian
LONDON – At long last, the Oscar Pistorius story wasn't about the artificial legs that carry him. It was about the flesh-and-blood heart and indomitable spirit that define him.
When the gun sounded in the packed Olympic Stadium and Pistorius pushed off the starting blocks with those carbon-fiber blades, the years of bans and appeals and lawyers evaporated. He was transformed in that moment from curiosity to Olympian, and the Olympics were transformed even more profoundly.
If you could hold the tears back watching the 25-year-old South African sprint 400 meters to qualify for Sunday's semifinals, you gave up the fight listening to him speak, graciously and humbly and gratefully.
"I've been blessed by the Lord," said this man who was born without fibulas in either leg, who became a double amputee at 11 months old, who learned to walk and to play and to run on prosthetic legs.
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