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David’s pinging his way to second Paralympic Games


Four Cornish lads are also looking forward to the Paralympics, which start at the Games’ venues at the end of August.


Selected for table tennis is Torpoint’s David


Wetherill, (22), (pictured below), a member of the nearby Crafthole club, who reached the last eight in the Beijing competition, while Newquay swimmers Jonathan Fox, Matt Whorwood and Benjamin Procter will all be competing in the pool.


Best of the trio is probably 20-year-old Fox, but both 22-year-old lifeguard Procter, who swims for Newquay Cormorants and Truro City, and Truro-born Whorwood, (22), are currently in great form.


Incidentally, while not


renown for its snow, Cornwall can also boast of Olympic success in the Winter Games with 41-year-old paralympic alpine skier Talan


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Skeels-Piggins, returning to Falmouth from Vancouver with a medal in 2010. And, of course, when considering Cornish links to the Games, it should not be forgotten that the London 2012 Olympic Games chairman is non other than former athlete Lord (Sebastian) Coe, who served five years as Conservative MP for Falmouth in the 1990s.


RUGBY FOOTNOTE:When Penzance and England winger Barrie Bennetts had to withdraw with an injury on the morning of the 1908 Olympic rugby final, he was replaced by Barney Solomon, the elder brother of the much more famous Bert. Cornwall had five current, or future England


players in that team – captain John Jackett, of Falmouth, at full-back; Bert Solomon at centre; England and British Lions fly-half John ‘Maffer’ Davey at fly-half, partnering St Ives and England scrum-half, Tommy Wedge, and a pack including another England man, Arthur Wilson, who was a student at Camborne School of Mines. Cornwall: Edward (‘John’) Jackett, Barney Solomon, Bert Solomon, L F Dean, J T Jose, Thomas Wedge, James Davey, Richard Jackett, E J Jones, Arthur Wilson, Nicholas Tregurtha, A Lawrey, C R Marshall, A Wilcocks and John Trevaskis.


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