Oscar Pistorius — Murderer Eligible For Paralympics

Champion runner Oscar Pistorius keeps getting good news after murdering his model girlfriend. Upgraded charges of murder from manslaughter just meant a slap on the wrist — with lawyers saying that he could be out of prison in three years. Now the disabled athlete has learned that he's also welcome to compete in the 2020 Paralympics!

Tubby Reddy, CEO of South Africa's Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee, told the Daily Mail: "He would have paid his debt to society and will be back in society, living as a normal South African citizen. There is no rule that says he wouldn’t be able to participate."

Tubby still conceded that Pistorius' presence could be controversial after becoming the South African equivalent of O.J. Simpson. "Yes," the CEO said, "the sentence he has been given has divided opinion — there are those who are happy about it and there are those who are unhappy, and you will always have that."

Those unhappy people include the grieving parents of model Reeva Steenkamp. During the recent trial that seemingly shortened Pistorius' prison term, June and Barry Steenkamp took on the grim task of looking at photos of their daughter's corpse. She had been repeatedly shot by her boyfriend on Valentine's Day 2013.

Pistorius' story about the night of the murder — and his insistence that he didn't know Reeva was behind the closed door when he unloaded his gun into a bathroom — has been roundly ridiculed. His defense attorney even had Pistorius walk on his deformed legs during the retrial in a bid to win sympathy from the jury.

Pistorius claimed that he has mistaken Reeva for an intruder in the house when he fired the four shots. He originally served one year of a five-year manslaughter sentence. The charges were upgraded to murder on appeal — but a guilty sentence only gave him a six-year prison sentence!

Reeva's parents bravely chose the most explicit photos available to release to the public. They explained that they wanted the public to see the full impact of Pistorius' actions. Any impact, however, doesn't seem to have reached the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee.

Pistorius is the biggest name in Paralympics competition — and even raced at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. As declared by Tubby: "If he is out on parole, as it seems he will be before then, and qualifies for selection, then I don’t see how there can be a problem — why not?"