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Let the facts come out before judging Pistorius

By JOHN LEICESTER

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Feb 16, 2013

~~<p>In sport, Oscar Pistorius demonstrated how easy it is to be wrong about people. An athlete with prosthetic limbs competing at the Olympic Games? No way!</p>
<p>That lesson &mdash; don&rsquo;t leap to hasty, ill-informed conclusions &mdash; is worth remembering now as the double- amputee Olympian stands charged with murder in the shooting of his girlfriend.</p>
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In sport, Oscar Pistorius demonstrated how easy it is to be wrong about people. An athlete with prosthetic limbs competing at the Olympic Games? No way!

That lesson — don’t leap to hasty, ill-informed conclusions — is worth remembering now as the double- amputee Olympian stands charged with murder in the shooting of his girlfriend. Login for more...



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