Many of the people who played rugby with the Glendale Raptors stand out as phenomenal athletes but only one broke her neck, went to the Rio Olympics and was diagnosed with cancer twice in the span of 6 years. Jillion Potter, a star rugby player and cancer survivor, recently found out her battle isn’t over.”It’s…
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Epilepsy won’t stop young Cornwall rowing star Bryony Lawrence’s dream of chasing Olympic gold
Source: West Briton / Rhod Mitchell Truro teenage rower Bryony Lawrence, who has suffered from epilepsy since the age of five, has again shown on the international sporting stage that she will not allow the condition to stop her ambition of following in the footsteps of Penzance’s golden girl Helen Glover and becoming an Olympic…
Polish Olympian Piotr Malachowski selling medal to help boy with cancer
Source: Sports Illustrated / SI Wire Polish discus thrower Piotr Malachowski will sell the silver medal he won in Rio to help raise funds for a boy battling a rare form of cancer, he announced on his Facebook page. “In Rio I fought for gold,” Malachowski said. “Today I call on all people – let us fight…