Inching up to the starting line, eyes down, rubber gloved hands tense and ready above the tyres of his racer as the piep! of the whistle sounds, Brandon Beack punches down hard on the wheels’ push rims.
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He surges forward onto the track, his painstakingly rehabilitated biceps and shoulders taut and straining for speed against the 90kg weight he’s pulling in a wheelchair behind him.