December 17, 2018 / index / 0 Comments
All alone in a boat, she is blind, she is missing a leg and she is in need of returning to the shore. It is a condition in which Kylie Forth who is the sailor from Perth has been several times in the last 12 years, she yet remains fearless.
Forth is a courageous sailor. When she was at the age of three, she suffered from cancer, which took her eyes. At the time she reached nine, she lost her right leg. But, all these disabilities couldn’t resist her determination to become a sailor. And, so at the age of 32, she becomes the top sailor. In the year 2015, she won the Blind Match Racing World Championships (BMRWC) that took place in the US.
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