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Blind boy leads rugby team
By admin | June 21, 2007
Schoolboy Sam Wishart has become captain of his local rugby team despite being nearly blind. The 11-year-old has a rare condition which means he has to wear very dark, tinted lenses, reports the Daily Mirror. He cannot make out colours and struggles to see in bright light. But it has not stopped him being made skipper of the under-11 rugby team in Frome, Somerset.
Sam of Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts, said: “I like the contact and getting stuck in. Sometimes I drop the ball and it can be hard seeing my team-mates, but I’ve scored quite a lot of tries.
“And it was great when my team-mates voted for me to be captain because I’d only just joined.”
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