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Melissa Woods

Wallaby goes from long-shot 'Leo' to Lions series hero

Justin Harrison (right) and Owen Finegan savour Australia's 2001 series-winning victory. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

Australia have been given a painful reminder of how a Test match can turn in a moment and, while the British and Irish Lions were celebrating in Melbourne, the Wallabies had their own time in the sun in Sydney 24 years ago.

In the third and deciding Test, debutant Justin Harrison famously stole a lineout at the death from Lions skipper Martin Johnson to seal the Wallabies' first and only series win over the highly-touted tourists.

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