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FEATURE : ‘Blade Runner’ Pistorius is the main draw in Italy

Reuters, ROVERETO, Italy

Despite the attention and being nicknamed “Blade Runner” by the media, the slightly shy 23-year-old talks like any other athlete desperate to make the grade at international level.

In a long conversation, he did not mention his disability once.

“I enter the year thinking I’m having the best preparations and then at the end of the year, I realize how much I have learned from the season,” he said as another teenage girl grabbed hold of him for a picture.

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