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Du Toit leads South Africa team - again
By The Associated Press

BEIJING - Swimmer Natalie du Toit led the South African team into the National Stadium yesterday, becoming the first person to carry a country's flag at the opening ceremony of both the Olympics and Paralympics.

The 24-year-old amputee lost her lower left leg in a motorcycle accident in 2001. She competed in the 10-kilometer open-water swim at the Beijing Olympics last month and finished 16th of 25 swimmers.
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At the Paralympics, she is on a quest for five gold medals that would equal her haul from the 2004 Athens Paralympics.

Du Toit and Polish table tennis player Natalia Partyka are the only athletes in Beijing who will appear in both the Olympics and Paralympics. South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius, known as The Blade Runner, failed in his bid to race in the Olympics but will run in the Paralympics.
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