JOHANNESBURG (AP) a Oscar Pistorius has been working on his knives again and his come back to normal teaching is forthcoming, his agent says. It is the first time it's been confirmed that the athlete has run since he was charged with the Romantic Days Celebration shooting death of lover Reeva Steenkamp. A grainy phone image of what is apparently Pistorius on the track at the University of Pretoria was published Thursday on the front page of the Afrikaans-language Beeld newspaper in South Africa. The photograph a' taken by a top school student from the bus passing by the track a displays the double amputee at some length wearing his unmistakable blades and dark lycra working clothes and walking on a track with his hands on his hips. In reaction to the newspaper's claim that Pistorius had begun training around two weeks before, his family denied that he was on "any official training program" and had only been out running "on numerous isolated occasions." "Each time has been very difficult and he has struggled profoundly with the decision to even leave the house," Arnold Pistorius, Oscar's uncle, said in the record. But the family had urged Pistorius to obtain right back on the course, his dad said. The photo was taken on March 24 by adolescent Lisa Smith, her area hockey coach said, when their group was visiting the University of Pretoria, where Pistorius' typical training service is. The Associated Press noted on Wednesday that Pistorius had been at the course in the South African capital on the day of the photo and had done some jogging. It absolutely was since he shot Steenkamp dead in his house in early hours of Feb initially Pistorius had drawn on his working knives. 14, his agent, Peet van Zyl, told the AP afterwards Thursday. Pistorius was only "having a jog round the track," the agent reiterated, as the magazine said sources had told it the Olympic 400-meter runner and Paralympic success had started full education at the college on March 21. Van Zyl questioned that and explained neither he nor Ampie Louw, Pistorius' coach and the person who handles his workout sessions, were present at the course on your day the photo was taken. School sports director Charmaine Koekemoer and field tennis coach said she was driving the coach after dark track at around 10.15 a.m. on when people of her Hoerskool Voortrekker women baseball team began screaming "There is Oscar the Sunday morning! There's Oscar!" from the trunk. Student Smith then took the photo on her behalf BlackBerry, Koekemoer said. It reveals Pistorius in the distance with the bars of a steel barrier in the foreground. He walking facing clear, dull viewer stands and is is the sole person in the chance. "The young ones were really excited," Koekemoer told the AP. "That was the excitement, seeing a global image in real life. It had been nothing regarding his situation. "We did not see him playing around the course. He was just walking to the 100 meter end line down the final stretch. It appeared to be he was going to simply take his blades off." The individual picture, taken through the black wall and featuring Pistorius walking on the far side of the course, was accompanied by a story in Beeld beneath the headlines "Oscar is back on the track" and "In education with different athletes." Pistorius' management group was expecting news of the athlete's work to become public, Van Zyl said, after Pistorius had told them he'd visited his course with some Australian athletes on that day. Koekemoer a' who was visiting with her students from their college in the eastern city of Pietermaritzburg a' said there have been other athletes around Pistorius if they saw him. Neither Pistorius' coach nor his agent knew concerning the track visit until afterward, Van Zyl said. But while Pistorius hasn't yet came ultimately back to an exercise program, the agent explained, his return could possibly be any day now and the image of the world's most well-known disabled player back on his working knives was prone to become more and more popular again. "He may get up today and phone (coach) Ampie (Louw) and say he wants to be at the course at one o'clock," Van Zyl said. Van Zyl also said Pistorius' desire to start training again didn't show disrespect to your family of Steenkamp. Arnold Pistorius, the uncle, also appeared to be readying the world for the return of his nephew to running on course frequently, even though he was still "extremely traumatized" by the death of Steenkamp. "We all urged him to get right back onto the course to greatly help strengthen him emotionally," Arnold Pistorius said. "We encourage him to begin training even as we believe that it is a vital part of helping him handle the trauma." Oscar Pistorius declines murder in the Valentine's Day killing of product Steenkamp, saying he mistook her for a nighttime burglar in his home. His next scheduled court appearance is June 4, when prosecutors say they plan to provide indictments. ___ Follow Gerald Imray at www.twitter.com/GeraldImrayAP
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