EN GARDE! ; A painful lesson in the sport of wheelchair fencing

Sunday Mercury (June 07, 2009)

Author: Jonny Greatrex ;Helen Perkins

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He's abseiled from the roof of the Sunday Mercury office, hurtled down an Italian ice track with the British bobsleigh team and even risked a makeover at a Midland shopping centre.

Now reporter Jonny Greatrex, aka Jonny Dangerous, gets a lesson in wheelchair fencing from Britain's number one..

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EN GARDE! ; A painful lesson in the sport of wheelchair fencing

AS I peer through the thick gauze of my head-guard, I can just about make-out the shape of Simon Wilson waving his epee sword at me.

The worrying thing is that this 50-yearold is the best in country at what he ...

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