Oscar Doesn't Make the Cut

It appears that we've reached the final chapter in the Oscar Pistorious saga - at least for this Olympic cycle. Pistorious, you'll recall, is the South African double amputee sprinter who won a legal battle to become eligible for Olympic competition, in spite of his use of high-tech prosthetics he wears to run. With the legal hurdles out of the way, all Oscar had to do to book his ticket to Beijing was to run the 400 meters in less than 45.55 seconds. Unfortunately, he didn't make it, coming up with a best of 46.25 seconds. Faster times by a few other sprinters kept him off the South African 4 x 400 relay team, too.

With the legal battle behind him, Oscar plans on focusing on making the 2012 Olympics in London. Good luck to him.