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Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Date: Sep 5th 2008 8:12p.m. Contributed by: lilkuo To kick-off the Paralympics, City Weekend finagled an invite to a dinner for the South African Paralympics team. We schmoozed with the wheel-chair basketball team and one of our writers even stole the show from the ambassador when guests kept asking for her picture. Best of all, we got a few minutes with eminent athletes Natalie du Toit and Oscar Pistorius....
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
BEIXIAOYING TOWN, China - Natalie du Toit's Olympic moment came as she sat on the dock after finishing the women's swimming marathon. She began to think about her journey and what she had just accomplished. Du Toit didn't win gold, or silver, or...
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SouthAfrica.info RSS feed (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Natalie du Toit made history in Beijing when she took to the water in the women's 10-kilometre open water swim on Wednesday at the Olympic Games. The South African became the first amputee, along with Polish table tennis player Natalia Partyka, to take on able-bodied athletes in the biggest sporting event of them all in over a century.
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ESPN (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Michael Phelps may have 14 gold medals, but he doesn't have to feed himself during a race or fend off competitors kicking him in the head. He also has two legs with which to kick. Such is not the case for open swimmer Natalie du Toit.
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Natalie du Toit's advice for competing in open-water swimming could serve as words to live by for all of us. "You mustn't panic," du Toit once said. "You're going to get hit and you're going to get dunked, but don't panic." Du Toit, a 25-year-old South...
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ABC News (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Natalie du Toit goes for gold in Olympics and Paralympics.
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - In non-Olympic years, Natalie du Toit spends a lot of time giving motivational talks to schools, companies and churches in South Africa.
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Neatorama (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
If South African runner Oscar Pistorius qualifies for the Olympics, he won't be the only South African amputee competing in Beijing. Last month, Natalie Du Toit made the Olympic team in the new 10K Open Water Swimming {wiki} event. Du Toit lost the lower half of her left leg seven years ago in a traffic [...]
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
SEVILLE, Spain (Reuters) - South African amputee Natalie Du Toit qualified for the Beijing Olympics on Saturday after she finished fourth in the 10km race in the Open Water World Championships.
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ESPN (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
South African amputee Natalie Du Toit qualified for the Beijing Olympics on Saturday after she finished fourth in the 10 kilometer ace in the Open Water World Championships.
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The Star (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Natalie du Toit has been robbed of her dream to win six gold medals at the Beijing Paralympics because of an administrative blunder.
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Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Mail & Guardian reporter Lucky Sindane speaks to Olympic swimmer Natalie du Toit about Sascoc's poor management ahead of the Paralympics.
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The Star (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Swimmer Natalie du Toit will make history when she leads the South African Paralympic team as the official flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Paralympics.
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Herald (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Beijing – Swimmer Natalie du Toit will make history when she leads the South African Paralympic team as the official flag bearer at the opening of the Beijing Paralympics tomorrow.
