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Rio's carnival comes to dublin

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At the age of just seven, Rio Woolf is showing the signs of a champion footballer.

But Rio's talents are all the more remarkable when you learn that he was born with no shin-bone, ankle or knee-joint in his right leg, and became an amputee at 14 months old.

These days, wearing his lightweight-blade prosthesis, Rio is unstoppable, and this weekend will be joining the GB junior squad at the first junior camp hosted by the European Amputee Football Federation in Dublin.

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