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From chemo patient to Olympics champ
August 21, 2008
Maarten van der Weijden, who was given only a slim chance of survival after being diagnosed with leukaemia, won the gold in the men's 10km open water marathon.
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The Dutch swimmer discovered he had leukaemia in 2001 but pulled through after a stem cell transplant and chemotherapy and returned to the water two years later.
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