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“I was refused by my local club because I didn’t look disabled”

World Sailing is in the midst of submitting its bid to have sailing reinstated to the Paralympics, a process which CEO David Graham is happy to say, in our article on page 11, is involving almost everybody in the organisation. World Sailing is well aware that the significance of the bid, for the sport and disabled sailing in general, could hardly be overstated.

That’s not to say that disabled sailing is in a shabby state.

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