Article: Football-mad Lee finds a new lease of life in fencing; Paralympic star has sights set on success in Beijing.(News)

LEE Fawcett, flies out to Beijing today to compete in the wheelchair fencing event at the Paralympic Games.

In the second of a three-part series on Teesside's Paralympic athletes, SARAH JUDD discovers that fencing was not the Middlesbrough dad's first love.

PARALYMPIC fencer Lee Fawcett has never let disability get in the way of living life to the full.

At 32, the former Brackenhoe School pupil is married with three children and has enjoyed a varied and successful sporting career.

In little more than 12 years, Lee has coached a successful ...

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