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FORMER POLICEWOMAN BECOMES IRONMAN INSPIRATION
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When Sydney policewoman Samantha Barlow was brutally bashed on her way to work in 2009, doctors feared she wouldn’t survive.
6 years on, the mother-of-three has made a remarkable recovery, and she’s now preparing to compete in this weekend’s Ironman 70.3 Port Macquarie.