Olympic Torch Run in Ireland - Wednesday 6th June
6 June 2012; Mark Pollock, from Hollywood, Co. Down, with his partner Simone George. Mark is a double medallist in rowing in the Commonwealth Games and is unbroken by the loss of his sight at 22 and a paralysing fall 13 years later. A Trinity College Dublin graduate, Mark has competed against professional explorers like Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Olympic gold medalists and special forces personnel; all able-bodied athletes For the last decade, the blind adventure athlete has run a marathon at The North Pole, raced through the desert lowlands of the Syrian African Rift Valley to the Dead Sea and competed at high-altitude in the Everest Marathon. After a life threatening fall last year, Mark is paralysed from the waist , with the Olympic Flame during the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay through the streets of Dublin. Grand Canal Theatre, Dublin. Picture credit: Ray McManus / SPORTSFILE
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Wednesday 6th Jun 2012
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