They are the last England side left at this year’s Rugby League World Cup and for one of the stars of the hosts’ wheelchair side, Friday’s final against France has been a decade in the making.
Sebastien Bechara vividly remembers the moment his life changed forever. Bechara was born in Nottingham but moved to France at the age of nine, where he became a keen sportsman and a motorcycle enthusiast. But at the age of 18, tragedy struck. “Me and my dad were huge fans of motorcycles and I got my first one at 18, but I had a really bad accident in the south of France,” he says.
