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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Laura Connor & Matthew Barbour

Hero athlete on ventilator and unable to move completes TRIATHLON in wheelchair

Hooked up to a ventilator and unable to move, super-fit Sam Perkins thought his sporting career was over.

But that was before 15 of his loyal friends and family helped push him over a triathlon finish line in a wheelchair, showing that Sam had one more big event left in him.

He had been diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease aged 37 and told he was unlikely to see his 40th birthday.

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