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Murderball: inventing wheelchair rugby

In the 1970s, a group of friends invented a game in Canada, which they called 'murderball'. It later became known as wheelchair rugby.

In 1976, a group of friends invented a game at a rehab hospital in Canada, which they called 'murderball'.

It was debuted at the World Wheelchair Games in 1990 and called wheelchair rugby.

It became a full Paralympic Sport at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Duncan "The Quadfather" Campbell was one of the 'founding fathers' of the game after a diving accident caused a spinal cord injury.

He tells Megan Jones about why they wanted to create something new and what inspired them.

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(Photo: The 'founding fathers'. Credit: Duncan Campbell)

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