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JOHANNESBURG — Oscar Pistorius has been running on his blades again and his return to regular training is imminent, his agent says.
It is the first time it has been confirmed that the athlete has run since he was charged with the Valentine’s Day shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
A grainy cellphone photo of what appears to be Pistorius on the track at the University of Pretoria was published Thursday on the front page of the Beeld newspaper in South Africa.
The photograph — taken by a high school student from a bus passing by the track — shows the double amputee at some distance wearing his unmistakable blades and dark lycra running clothes and walking on a track with his hands on his hips.
In response to the newspaper’s claim that Pistorius had begun training as much as two weeks ago, his family denied that he was on “any official training program” and had only been out running “on a number of isolated occasions.”
“Each time has been very difficult and he has struggled immensely with the decision to even leave the house,” Arnold Pistorius, Oscar’s uncle, said in the statement.
