Oscar: An Accident Waiting To Happen - Plot & Excerpts
Or at least not at the able-bodied Games between 27 July and 12 August. As much as we all wanted him to be there, as much as we were all rooting for him, he didn’t actually fulfil the criteria to qualify for the South African team. That was the hard truth but no one seemed to notice. Required to run two A times per event (10:18secs in the 100 metres and 20:55secs in the 200 metres) we were all aware in the months leading up to the Games how hard he was trying to achieve this. By the time selection was finalised, however, Oscar had only managed to crack the prerequisite time once. In any other athlete’s case, they would simply not have been allowed to take part. When it came to Oscar, the wonder boy with no legs who had managed to beat all sorts of debilitating odds, the rules were different. In the local media, there were only a few journalists who were prepared to stick their necks out to write the truth about the whole saga. Well-known sports journalist Graeme Joffe was one of them.
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