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Oscar Pistorius (pictured) will compete at the Paralympic World Cup in Manchester, England, in May after recovering from a boating accident in South Africa.
Pistorius has declared himself fit to compete in Manchester after recovering from his boating accident.
Double amputee Pistorius, known as Blade Runner because of running blades he uses to compete in, suffered head and facial injuries in an accident on the Vaal River near Johannesburg on February 21.
However, The 22-year-old South African will compete in the 100 meters and 400 meters at the Manchester Regional Arena.
"I am recovering very well from the accident, better than anticipated," Pistorius told PA Sport. "If everything keeps on going at this rate I will be at full strength at the BT Paralympic World Cup.
"This competition is vital in my preparation and it gives me that vital indication as to where I am lying in my season and my ranking amongst other top athletes," he added.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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