LONDON (Reuters) - No country suffered more spectacularly at the hands of Jonah Lomu than England but his victims have long forgiven the New Zealand winger whom they held in the highest regard and were united in their grief at news of his death on Wednesday.
Lomu's remarkable haul of four tries, and the way he scored them, in New Zealand's semi-final demolition of England in the 1995 World Cup catapulted him to a level of fame unprecedented in the sport.
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