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‘Man-trap’ takes out cyclist
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Nelson’s Liam Malone training at Saxton Field last week ahead of the Rio Paralympics in September. Photo: Andrew Board.
School mates backing Liam’s Rio dream Andrew Board Liam Malone’s journey to qualify for Rio has benefited from some very supportive Kiwis. And his big moment inside the Olympic stadium won’t be any different, with around eight of his old school friends from Birchwood Primary School set to make the journey to Brazil to watch him compete in the
Paralympics. Liam started his journey to Rio shortly after losing his mother to cancer. The double amputee says he was spending his days “on the piss and smoking too much weed”. It was a depression triggered by his mother’s death, but Liam says he knew to get out of it, he had to set himself a goal that would influence his day-to-day life. “I thought of setting up a
business or climbing Mt Cook, but the Paralympics was something that, in short period of time, I could achieve a huge amount of personal growth, and day-to-day it would affect me because I would have to be healthy and be training. And it’s challenging, it had to be challenging.” The first thing Liam needed was a pair of “blades” which Para-
lympians run on. He launched a campaign to raise the $20,000 needed. New Zealanders donated $50,000. Liam says that was a “defining moment”. “If that didn’t happen I don’t know how viable it would have been. It was so humbling, in fact I shed a few tears the night that it ended, it was really generous.”
Nelson police says the person who put a rope across the Tasman Great Taste Trail on Rabbit Island that injured a cyclist, effectively set a “mantrap” and could face a maximum of five years imprisonment. Well-known Nelson cyclist Chris Sharland was cruising along the trail adjacent to Ken Beck Dr on May 29 when the rope hit him across the chest, bringing to him a sudden stop and sending him flying off his bike. Although Chris was stunned by the impact and suffered extensive bruising to both his arms, he was relieved that nobody else had been injured by the senseless act. “I wasn’t going full gas because I was just warming down from a race, so that was lucky. I was doing about 25kmh and it hit me across the chest and knocked me backwards - I didn’t see it at all. “I’m quite tall so it’s just lucky it wasn’t a shorter rider or a young kid or they could have been hit in the throat or head. Someone could have been seriously injured. “I’ve been riding bike all my life and I’ve never seen anything like that. It’s a pretty rank thing for someone to do.”
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