Oscar Pistorius: I'll cherish Olympic race 'rest of my life" - TODAY in London. Oscar Pistorius from South Africa became the first double amputee to compete in the games by running the men's 400-meter race.
He says that having the opportunity to represent his country in the Olympics "far surpassed" his expectations. By Jillian Eugenios. Was-she-really-132-worlds-oldest-ever-person-antisa-khvichava-dies-in-remote-georgian-village-8202514. Antisa Khvichava claimed to have been born on 8 July 1880, and had a Soviet-era passport and documentation to that effect, but her age was contested and never officially proven.
She lived in the remote village of Sachino, in north-west Georgia, with her 42-year-old grandson and claimed to have retired from her job as a tea and corn picker in 1965 when she was 85. Mrs Khvichava claimed to be just 10-years younger than Russia’s first communist leader Vladimir Lenin, and to have been born a year before the death of the celebrated Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. She said she had 12 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren, and reportedly attributed her longevity and good health to drinking a small amount of local brandy every day.
Mrs Khvichava, who only spoke in the local language Mingrelian, would already have been 31 when the Titanic sunk in April 1912 and 37 during Russia’s October Revolution in 1917.