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Sadness behind Klim’s big journey

Alex Bywater talks to Namibia’s Lesley Klim about the problems he faced in his early life

World stage: George Bridge of New Zealand is held by Lesley Klim
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HIT BY A series of family tragedies and surrounded by the temptations of drugs and alcohol while growing up in the southern Namibian city of Keetmanshoop, Lesley Klim’s journey to rugby’s biggest stage could have ended up a very different story. It is to his huge credit that it did not.
The 24-year-old winger is representing his country at the World Cup in Japan and in an age where most professio...

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