Pistorius home from hospital

Johannesburg - Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius has gone home after being operated on following a boating accident, a hospital spokesperson said on Thursday.

Amelda Swartz, spokesperson for Johannesburg's Milpark Hospital, said that Pistorius was "doing well' and had been sent home the day before.

Pistorius sustained head and facial injuries in a boating accident near Johannesburg on Saturday and had surgery at Milpark on the following day.

Pistorius, the paralympic 100m and 400m champion, had his legs amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old because he had no fibulas.

Last year, an appeals court overturned a ban by athletics governing body the IAAF, which had ruled that his carbon-fiber prosthetic racing blades gave him an unfair advantage.

The ban was overturned in time for the Beijing Olympics, but Pistorius failed to make the qualifying time for the 400.