Former south africa paralympic superstar, oscar pistorius, jailed in 2016 for killing his girlfriend reeva steenkamp, has been moved closer to her family ahead of reconciliation.

Blade runner paralympics. Rehm, who turns 33 on sunday, had his right leg amputated below the knee aged 14 after a wakeboarding incident and is known as the blade jumper having had designs to follow. A lot of this attention can be attributed to the ‘blade runner’. Steven made a false start that resulted in a heartbreaking.

Blade runner anna steven says she is devastated after a false start resulted in her disqualification from her women’s 100m t64 heat at the tokyo paralympics. Kiwi blade runner anna steven is devastated after getting disqualified from her final event of the tokyo paralympics. The paralympic games are bigger than ever, with 4280 athletes competing across 166 teams, and much new found media attention.

Van rhijn, a double leg amputee, began racing on blades in 2011 before going on to clinch multiple paralympic, world and european titles. Pistorius, the first amputee runner to compete in the summer olympics at the london 2012 games, was banned by the international paralympic committee for five years in. In the fourth edition of our ‘para athletics explained’ series, dutch star sprinter marlou van rhijn talks about blade running.