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Can we talk about Oscar Pistorius?

SusieBWSusieBW member
in September 2011 Moms

I'm fascinated with this whole story.  Which is weird because I was only mildly interested in him during the Olympics last summer.

Here's the latest article.

Do you think he did it?  It almost sounds, from some accounts, like it might have been an accident or a mistaken identity kind of situation, but then there are also accounts that there may have been some history of domestic violence.  But then there are yet other reports about what a nice and kind guy he is and how happy their relationship was.  It's frustrating me that there are no details being released or known.  I'm not sure why I'm so fascinated with this story.  Maybe because I think he's hot.

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I heard Nike just pulled an ad that he did for them that was captioned "I'm the bullet in the chamber."  Hm. 

Backing up a little, let's also talk about how he is a double amputee and competed in the Olympics with his carbon-fiber blade prosthetic legs against athletes with regular legs.  Did that give him an advantage?  A disadvantage?  Do you think he should've been allowed to compete in the Olympics?

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Re: Can we talk about Oscar Pistorius?

  • MsCrispyMsCrispy member
    imageSusieBW:

    Backing up a little, let's also talk about how he is a double amputee and competed in the Olympics with his carbon-fiber blade prosthetic legs against athletes with regular legs.  Did that give him an advantage?  A disadvantage?  Do you think he should've been allowed to compete in the Olympics?

    I haven't followed the case, but I don't think he should have been allowed to compete in the Olympics.

    I think it is questionable if it actually gave him an advantage, but I think it is a bad precedent to set. At some point, prosthetics are going to get to the point that they will be an advantage. We don't want people to chop off their legs so that they can have a leg up.


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    I'm not close enough to the situation or read enough to speculate but if he did do it, crazier things have happened, and while sad, I can't say I would be surprised.

    I think he should have been able to compete and I am glad he did. Who knows what the future holds for this type of thing 

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  • SusieBWSusieBW member
    imageMsCrispy:
    imageSusieBW:

    Backing up a little, let's also talk about how he is a double amputee and competed in the Olympics with his carbon-fiber blade prosthetic legs against athletes with regular legs.  Did that give him an advantage?  A disadvantage?  Do you think he should've been allowed to compete in the Olympics?

    I haven't followed the case, but I don't think he should have been allowed to compete in the Olympics.

    I think it is questionable if it actually gave him an advantage, but I think it is a bad precedent to set. At some point, prosthetics are going to get to the point that they will be an advantage. We don't want people to chop off their legs so that they can have a leg up.

    Pun intended?  LOL.  I agree with this, though.  I don't know whether or not the prosthetics gave him an advantage or not, and I assume that some Olympic committee looked into that and determined that it did no, but you're right, it's bad precedent in the event that prosthetics do reach a point where they give an advantage.  If steroids or other forms of "performance enhancing drugs" aren't allowed, then I don't think physical enhancements should be allowed either.  While Pistorius is obviously an amazing athlete, he's clearly running with physical alterations, and someday technology will reach the point where that provides an undeniable advantage, even if it wasn't necessarily there at this last Olympics.

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  • SusieBWSusieBW member

    imageSweetPea927:
    I was fascinated with him at the Olympics! I thought or hoped it was the case of mistaken identity, but I read this morning that she was shot four times through a bathroom door. That doesn't sound like mistaken identity.

    ITA with this, too.  I was hoping that it was a mistaken identity situation, too (even though that would just mean that this was a whole different kind of tragedy), but based on the latest reports, it's not looking that way.  The whole case seems so weird.

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