The state is seeking to convince the court that Mr Pistorius and Ms Steenkamp, a model, reality TV star and law graduate, had an argument before the athlete fired the shots that killed his girlfriend.
In the Olympics, athletes fire 20 shots at 20 targets with a 4.5-millimeter air pistol; fence in a 24-person round robin; swim a 200-meter freestyle race; ride a horse over a course that has 12 jumps; and, finally, run a 3-kilometer race.
Regardless of who's involved, and these are two of America's biggest international stars mind you, these are some of the most biting comments you'll ever see an athlete publicly fire towards an announcer.
This would prevent coaches and athletic directors from "firing" athletes due to injuries or athletic performance reasons - even when they are excelling in the classroom.
It just so happens that we recently published a book of sports poems made from the utterances of professional athletes: Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion: The Poetry of Sportstalk.
The man known as "Dad" left the building and the athlete took over, firing back a yellow grenade with such spin on it that when it smacked me in the middle of my chest and knocked me over, I didn't even see it happen.
The athlete has admitted firing the shots which killed her, but exactly what happened in his home that night lies at the centre of his murder trial.
They're not your boss — in professional tennis, golf, and skating, the athlete hires and fires the coach — but they can be bossy.
If the athlete didn't fire the shots through the toilet door in the knowledge that Steenkamp was inside, then he believed he was shooting at an intruder – in which case the charge of premeditated murder wouldn't hold up.
USA Swimming is eager to move forward after a year dominated by a sexual-abuse scandal involving coaches and under-age athletes, the mysterious firing of the previous coach Mark Schubert and the death of the swimmer Fran Crippen during an open-water race in the Middle East.
