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Track and field Paralympian Stef Reid<\/a> will make her Dancing on Ice<\/a> debut this weekend, along with her professional skating partner Andy Buchanan.<\/p>\n Ahead of her first performance, Reid had an \u201camazing\u201d skating prosthetic leg made, which she couldn\u2019t be more \u201cgrateful\u201d for.<\/p>\n Speaking to press including RadioTimes.com<\/a>, the 37-year-old said: \u201cIt\u2019s been amazing. I\u2019m so fortunate that my whole life I have had access and funds to get amazing prosthetic technologies.<\/p>\n \u201cI have woken up every day and always felt like I could do anything I wanted to do because I had legs to do it. I have a walking leg, I have a running leg, I have a high-heeled leg and I have a skating leg. I know that\u2019s not everyone\u2019s scenario around the world, so I feel really grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n She continued: \u201cI remember calling Richard, my prosthetist who makes my running blades, and saying, \u2018I\u2019m going to be on Dancing on Ice. Will you make a skate leg?\u2019 And he was like, \u2018Yes. What does it need to do?\u2019 I said, \u2018I have no idea. I don\u2019t skate. Are you in?\u2019 He\u2019s like, \u2018Yes, I\u2019m in\u2019 and so we literally had eight weeks to come up with something.\u201d<\/p> Although Reid admits the finished leg isn\u2019t \u201cperfect\u201d, she believes it will give her the best chance in the competition, as she competes against the other Dancing on Ice 2022 contestants<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIs it perfect? No, we didn\u2019t have enough time. But it is the best we possibly could have come up with in that space of time,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n In terms of the technology behind it, she added: \u201cIt\u2019s not high tech in the way that you would expect. We actually found we needed to have an immobile ankle so there\u2019s no hydraulics and nothing on it moves. It is just one solid piece because at the end of the day, that was what gave me the confidence.<\/p>\n \u201cI needed to know in order to balance, each time I stepped down it wasn\u2019t going to move and I kind of knew what I was getting out of it. So the real genius in it is actually how basically a foot and ankle can move in a million different combinations of positions.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong> Rachel Stevens doing \u2018everything she can\u2019 to prepare for Dancing on Ice despite injury<\/a><\/p>\n Dancing on Ice is on ITV on Sundays. To find out what\u2019s on telly tonight, check out our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0or visit our dedicated\u00a0Entertainment<\/a>\u00a0hub.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Grace Henry Published: Thursday, 20 January 2022 at 12:00 am Track and field Paralympian Stef Reid will make her Dancing on Ice debut this weekend, along with her professional skating partner Andy Buchanan. Ahead of her first performance, Reid had an \u201camazing\u201d skating prosthetic leg made, which she couldn\u2019t be more \u201cgrateful\u201d for. 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