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Sportshour: JohnBoy Smith: From being shot to the winners podium

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27/04/2019 GMT

JohnBoy Smith: From being shot to the winners podium

BBC World Service - Sportshour, JohnBoy Smith: From being shot to the winners podium

JohnBoy Smith speaks about his journey from being shot to competing in marathons.

JohnBoy Smith speaks about his journey from being shot and paralysed to competing in marathons.

JohnBoy Smith was shot in the back as a sixteen year old after finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Paralysed from the waist down, his life changed forever. But whilst rehabilitating he found sport and now he's in contention to win the London Marathon on Sunday. He shares his story.

The very first winners of the London Marathon in 1981 were Dick Beardsley and Inge Simonsen who decided the best way to finish was hand in hand. We look back at their victory.

Former Premier League footballer Francis Benali is about to attempt to complete seven Ironman triathlons in seven days all to raise money for Cancer Research UK! We speak to him ahead of his mammoth journey.

The first round of the NFL draft has taken place but did you know that the 254th and last pick earns the title “Mr Irrelevant”? Sportshour hears from Marty Moore who became the first "Mr Irrelevant" to make it to, and then win a Super Bowl ring with the New England Patriots.  

Picture: JohnBoy Smith winning the Dublin marathon (Getty Images).

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