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I am writing to the IPC members today and I felt it was really time to share the emotions, and share the shock and disbelief.
and also condolences of course to the family now of Reeva Steenkamp.
And also reiterating the fact that this is most certainly a police matter, and it's something that we really cannot comment on.
on our feeling, on our understandings of our lack of information of the case, and this is very much in the hands of the South African police and the South African courts.
And moving on to the fact of the wider Paralympic Movement moving forward.
Ever since those great Paralympic Games last year in London, which are now nearly six months ago,
it's stil so fresh in peoples' minds. I'm stopped in all sorts of places, whether it's on planes, on trains, in restaurants
just saying what great Games they were. And if you think back to the stars,
that really were born to the world last summer in London - if I think of Alan Oliveira, the Brazilian, if I think of Johanna Benson of Namibia, I think of Jonnie Peacock,
in the 100m. I'm thinking of Eleanor Simmonds, David Weir - all those great stars that have been born.
And so the Paralympic Movement is full of these athletes and it's the athletes that will take the Movement forward.