So when an ex-girlfriend, Samantha Taylor, told a South African paper last year that \u201cOscar is certainly not what people think he is\u201d \u2014 before her lawyer delivered a letter saying she withdrew everything she said \u2014 should that have been part of his story? Can everything be part of a story?<\/p>\n
No, it cannot. Sports reveal character, but we can\u2019t truly know if whatever drove an athlete to greatness was nobility or obsession or a hidden reservoir of rage. We can\u2019t truly know what fame does to somebody. We can\u2019t know a person, not really, no matter how many TV interviews or magazine features or newspaper columns they are in. Sports, and sportswriting, offers snapshots, glimpses, hints, or fa\u00e7ades. Some of it is real, but none of it is ever comprehensive. We think we know, and we don\u2019t, and we have to be reminded of this over and over again, because the lights are bright, and sports can be beautiful, and it causes us to forget, and believe again. Because we want it to be true.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maybe the most astute comment I\u2019ve read on the sad story about Oscar Pistorius, by Bruce Arthur: So when an ex-girlfriend, Samantha Taylor, told a South African paper last year that \u201cOscar is certainly not what people think he is\u201d \u2014 before her lawyer delivered a letter saying she withdrew everything she said \u2014 should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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