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Brandon practicing at Cape Town Stadium in Cape Town. Image: Diana Neille
Brandon practicing at Cape Town Stadium in Cape Town. Image: Diana Neille

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.

Bid for international sports stardom

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.

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