Natalie du Toit's performance was really impressing, but much less impressing were the press comments on her achievement, for nearly each newspaper added some wrong information like "the first athlete with an amputation ever to qualify...". Do they never look up anything before printing?

Both the English and the German Wikipedia article about her get this bit wrong too.

There was an athlete also with an amputation (one leg below the knee) after a traffic accident before her and he even won gold at two successive Olympic games and a Silver at his first Olympic appearance. And he also did compete in a water sport though not in the open sea but in the pool.

Oliver Halassy

And then there was a deaf Hungarian fencer winning two Golds, three Silvers and two Bronze.

And a Hungarian shooter winning the world championship when he was able bodied. He lost his shooting hand by a grenade and came back 1948 to win Gold at the Olympics shooting with the other hand.

Wolfgang