Jonah Lomu, dead? It scarcely seems credible. Still so young, at just 40, and such a force of nature, such a giant of rugby. For all of us, the memories crowd back. When he burst upon the rugby scene at the Rugby World Cup in 1995, none of us had ever seen anything like him. In an age when wingers tended to be built like thermometers, here was a bloke built like a rampaging second-rower, who could nevertheless run the 100 metres in about 11 seconds, with a football in his hands! The All Blacks played in seven matches in South Africa, Lomu played in six of them and I saw them all – covering it for the Sydney Morning Herald – with, impossibly, each performance more stunning the last,...
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