This message board is getting increasingly disgusting. Lets not forget that Sammy allegedly threatened this woman with a gun several months back. Now we make fun of her for having a physical deformity? And the anonymous caller wants to call the other women/wives whores?
I know we'll probably never know the truth, given that money, fame, and corruption are involved. But it's important to not forget that Sammy seemed to have made some bad decisions in the last several months. The whole gun incident, flipping his car, and now this incident. Maybe it was murder, maybe the real details are being obscured by terrible corruption. But maybe we just have trouble acknowledging that a world class athlete maybe had too much to drink and stumbled while scaling the balcony. Sammy seemed larger than life. He defied the limitations that many human bodies pose. But in the end, he was a human being with a breakable body.
Again, I don't want to say he was a bad guy or that he deserved this. Like most people, he probably had good aspects to his personality and bad. This is an opportunity (unfortunate as it is) to reflect on issues of fame, money, and power. If Sammy was still alive and winning marathons, would we let him off the hook for domestic abuse? Would most people care (or even notice) if his family and community were exploiting him? Would the pleasure of watching a champion at work be worth the abuse and exploitation that accompanied his making?