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Young Wales rugby talent lost career in catastrophic incident but then did something special

Once, Harrison Walsh’s primary concern in life involved putting opponents on a rugby field through the mincer at scrum time.

A prop who featured in the same Wales age-grade teams as the likes of Adam Beard and Owen Watkin, he had dreams of representing his country and, if he realised his potential, even figuring for the British and Irish Lions. Having played for Wales U16s and U18s, things were going well.

But then, on a fateful afternoon in January 2015, a catastrophic injury finished his career.

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Walsh was 18 years of age and playing for Swansea as a replacement in a Swalec Championship match against Tata Steel when he jumped over someone and felt his right knee collapsing beneath him. Right then, he could have been forgiven for believing his whole world had collapsed as well.

“I dislocated my knee and tore every ligament, while there were lots of other nasty things as well. I suffered nerve damage because the knee actually came out and ripped all the endings at the back of it. So I don’t have feeling below the knee.

“It was a pretty extensive injury.

“On the pitch, I was looking at my leg, which appeared to be on the wrong way, and thinking: ‘I’m not going to play again.’ I knew it was over.”

Walsh wasn’t to know it, but that awful moment that would ultimately set the Ospreys academy player on an altogether different course which has seen him enjoy great success.

For he is now a Para discus and shot thrower who has represented Great Britain and won a bronze medal at the European Championships. He also hopes to figure for Wales at the Commonwealth Games paralympics this summer.

Oh, and he’s an aspiring artist whose work is

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