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He who laughs last, laughs best, so goes an old English saying. And so Oscar Pistorius, the South African Paralympics athletics sensation had the last laugh in the dying minutes of the London Paralympics 2012. The “Blade Runner”, who perhaps was the symbol of the games, had been beaten twice, but finally prevailed in the final event, which he confessed was his favourite – 400m.
Pistorius, a double amputee, runs on metallic legs known as blades. His speed cannot be matched by many who claim to be ‘able-bodied’.
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