Beau Vernon eyes Paris Paralympics medal as he makes Games debut

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Beau Vernon eyes Paris Paralympics medal as he makes Games debut
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As Beau Vernon recovered from a broken neck, nurses told him he would never be able to get dressed without assistance. Now, he is preparing for his Paralympic debut.

Beau Vernon remembers being told by nurses, as he recovered from a broken neck, that he would never be able to get dressed without assistance — a statement that, to a self-proclaimed "stubborn bloke," was like waving a red rag to a bull."For someone with my level of injury, they told me nobody had ever done that before," said the 35-year-old, who will make his Paralympics debut as part of Australia's wheelchair rugby team on Thursday.

Once a promising midfielder who called the likes of Scott Pendlebury and Dale Thomas teammates, Vernon put on a tough front.But on the inside, he struggled to adjust to the reality that his life was now "a lot f***ing harder". Vernon was the youngest member of Gippsland Power's 2005 Talent League premiership side, which featured Pendlebury, Thomas and Xavier Ellis, while he also had a stint in the VFL with Casey.But before emerging as a key player for the Steelers, Vernon went back to his old club Leongatha in Gippsland as a coach.

At a pre-Paralympics tournament in Canada earlier this year, Vernon was named the best player in his classification.

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