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Gids | 10:00 UK time, Thursday, 21 August 2008

Whilst you might have heard about the boxing-style tussle that was going on at the front of the race during the Women's 10k Open Swim.

...An equally significant event was taking place for disability sport in the water as South Africa's who had one leg amutated at 17 became the first athlete to compete in , she finished the marathon race in a .

With so much talk pre-games about whether compatriot Oscar Pistorius would compete, now Natalie had made this historic leap it seems fair that she should take the spotlight!

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  • Comment number 1.

    The only way it's "significant" for Disability sport is that it shows that to have credibility as a sportsperson in the eyes of non-disabled people, she had to betray the Paralympic movement.

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