Lottery Winners Buy New Prosthetic Leg for 13-year-old Olympic Torchbearer
Crowds cheered as Kieran Maxwell, donning a cane and heavy prosthetic leg, carried the Olympic flame through northeast England in June. During the torch relay, the young teen who became an amputee after a battle with a rare form of cancer tripped and fell. His parents had been fundraising to buy him a lighter replacement limb, and this week Britain's biggest lottery winners stepped in to supply the money.
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