Adam Steenkamp vividly remembers marvelling, as did the world, at 's history-making performance in the Olympic Stadium in 2012.In his mind's eye he sees him still – the Blade Runner, the first double amputee to run in the Games – lining up for his 400m heat in his wraparound shades and sickle-like prosthetic carbon-fibre legs called Cheetahs, shaped to curve like the hind legs of the fastest animal on land.At the time, Adam probably felt a little stab of pride. Here was a man, South African like him, wowing the world on the track and off it, comporting himself in interviews with charming aplomb.
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