The South African runner Oscar Pistorius, who is now serving a sentence for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend, had more to overcome than most athletes: His legs had been amputated below the knees when he was a toddler. But he managed to become both a Paralympic and Olympic champion. Tattooed on his back is a modified verse from Corinthians: I do not run like a man running aimlessly I do not fight like a man beating the air; I execute each stride with intent; I beat my body and make it my slave I bring it under my complete subjection…
