Wendell Sailor : crossing the line

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Wendell Sailor : crossing the line
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crossing the line
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Wendell Sailor ; written with Jimmy Thomson
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Crossing the line
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eng
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Superstar Brisbane Broncos and Kangaroos winger Wendell Sailor shocked everyone when he switched codes to play union in 2001. The King of the Wing, the huge explosive player whose thunderous runs intimidated anyone in his path, surprised even himself when he went on from the Queensland Reds to be selected for the Wallabies, becoming the first Australian player raised in league to represent his country in both codes. But in 2006, all of this fell apart. During a routine drug test for his new team, the Waratahs, he tested positive for cocaine and was banned from the game for two years. And those two years away would prove to the toughest challenge of his life. The self-confessed party boy who constantly sought the public spotlight was now forced to do some soul-searching, and most of it wasn?t pretty. But in the way that only Sailor can, he fought back hard and worked through the shame. Pitting himself against his old ways, Sailor threw himself into charity work, mentoring young people in alcohol and drug awareness programs and, with the help of his family and old coach and mentor, Wayne Bennett, began his path to redemption. When the ban was up, Sailor made a triumphant return to the code that had first discovered him at age 17, and the St George Illawarra Dragons had a new winger ? a player ferociously determined to prove to Australia what he was capable of until his final game in 2010. But Crossing the Line isn?t just Wendell Sailor?s story as the comeback king. Written with Jimmy Thomson, Dell reveals a dark secret that has haunted him since childhood and goes to the very core of his identity. He tells us what it?s like to be a black man in a white man?s world and the toll racism takes on elite sport. He also shows us how good friends and mentorship are so important to our public national heroes. But he also demonstrates how crucial the bonds of family ? and the love and trust of good people ? are for anyone, hero or not
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individual biography
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non fiction

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