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    86 year-old swimmer with MS defies expectations

    rokurBy rokurSeptember 14, 2014No Comments1 Min Read
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    Sudbury’s Derald Balson competes in swimming at a national le​vel at the age of 86.

    That’s pretty impressive but consider also that he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis more than 40 years ago.

    Swimming using only his arms, he won two gold medals last month at the Canada 55 Plus Games in Strathcona County, Alberta.

    “A lady said to me once, you remind me of a seal,” Balson recalls.

    “And I said, ‘Gee, they’re not very nice looking things.’ And she said, ‘Yes, but did you ever see them swim?’ I said, ‘Yes, I have.’ She said, ‘You know how their tail fin goes just like that? That’s what your legs do.'”

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