Jamie Roberts has been part of some heroic stands in his rugby career, but he has never witnessed anything like the NHS fighting on the Covid-19 frontline.
The 97-cap Wales and Lions centre returned from South Africa’s Cape Town when the crisis halted the Super Rugby season to volunteer for the Cardiff and Vale Trust and was blown away by what he saw.
“I’ve not seen a level of resilience like it in my life,” said Roberts (at a hospital in Llandough, Wales, right). “We talk about resilience in sport – in rugby it’s about showing it to bounce back after you lose a game or have an injury – but this really put resilience in perspective.
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