said.She confirmed they had split.

In an interview with Rapport newspaper, Taylor said she "prepared to reveal what Pistorius made me go through", but later withdrew everything she said in a lawyer's letter.

The Star newspaper then reported in late November that Pistorius and Clifton Shores TV producer Quinton van der Burgh came to blows about the alleged infidelity of an unnamed 18-year-old woman Pistorius was dating.Spat with soccer player

The athlete was said to have confronted Van der Burgh at the Kyalami racetrack in Johannesburg. Van der Burgh laid a charge of intimidation against him.

The two men exchanged threats via SMS. Van der Burgh's friend, former soccer player Marc Batchelor, then got involved in the spat. Pistorius allegedly told Batchelor he would break his legs.Batchelor then apparently threatened Pistorius.

Pistorius madehistory when he became the first amputee to win a silver medal at the World Athletics Championships in 2011.

The following season he secured two more silver medals, in the men's individual one-lap sprint and the relay event, at the African Athletics Championships in Benin.

Pistorius again wrote himself into the history books when he became the first amputee to compete on the track at the able-bodied Olympic Games in August 2012.

Pistorius reached the semifinals in the individual 400m event, and also competed in the relay final, with South Africa given a free pass after they were obstructed by the Kenyan team in the heats.

A six-time Paralympic Games gold medallist, the Blade Runner holds the men's 100m, 200m and 400m world records in the T44 disability class.

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