Wayde van Niekerk is back in the groove
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The only lightning visible at Bloemfontein's athletics stadium yesterday shot down from the thick clouds, but the way Wayde van Niekerk cantered around the track suggested he really is over his right-knee injury.
The Olympic 400m champion hasn't competed internationally since the 2017 world championships after collapsing during a game of touch rugby.
Surgery and more than two years of rehabilitation have followed, and the world title he had won at Beijing 2015 and London 2017 went to the Bahamas on the head of Steve Gardiner without a fight last year.
But now he's back and ready to fight.
The Olympic 400m champion hasn't competed internationally since the 2017 world championships after collapsing during a game of touch rugby.
Surgery and more than two years of rehabilitation have followed, and the world title he had won at Beijing 2015 and London 2017 went to the Bahamas on the head of Steve Gardiner without a fight last year.
But now he's back and ready to fight.
