SAP 505 World Championship sailor's remarkable story

6:34 AM Thu 31 Mar 2011 GMT

'Jim Turner and Luke Molloy - Christophe Favreau pic - SAP 505 World Championship' Christophe Favreau ?

Among the big names on Hamilton Island for this week's 2011 SAP 505 World Championship are two America's Cup and big boat sailing mates, here to sharpen their skills in the '505' - and one of them - an Australian Volvo Ocean Race winner, has a remarkable story. Queenslander Luke Molloy, an ambitious and highly-regarded sailor, told for the first time of his chronic kidney failure and a subsequent kidney transplant last March. A low-key bloke, Molloy, 31, hasn't told many people. He wanted no sympathy, and even more, he didn't want the affliction to stop him from sailing, or ...

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