Australian Athlete: Kurt Fearnley – A Great Australian

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An article preview from "Australian Athlete", by Jarryd Clifford 


“There were tears streaming down my face, but I drove myself on, screaming, ‘Who are you? Who are you?’ And each time the answer that kept bouncing around my mind was just ‘I am someone who will never stop, someone who will never give up. Ever.”

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