Update: Oscar floored

What a week for Oscar Pistorius, the fastest man on no legs. First, the good news that he gets to run in two international able-bodied events. He takes second place in the 400m B race in Rome last Friday, but gets disqualified in the rainy race in England two days later. The stress and emotion surface in an untimely outburst against the IAAF, which is still investigating whether his prosthetics give him an advantage. I fail to see why this should take so long, but calling them amateurs probably wasn’t going to help his cause. Today the news breaks that the IAAF believes his blades offer less wind-resistance. This shouldn’t be too hard to fix. But he also distributes his energy differently, and speeds up during the course of a sprint, which is the exact opposite of what other athletes do. I’m not convinced this is a fair point, but if it sticks he might not, ahem, have a leg to stand on.