FILE PHOTO: New Zealand's team manager Colin Meads signs autographs for school children as the All Blacks visit Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, May 19, 1995 ahead of Rugby World Cup . REUTERS/Juda Ngwenya/File photo
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Tributes flowed from politicians, former team mates and current players on Sunday as New Zealand mourned the death of All Blacks great Colin Meads at the age of 81 following a battle with pancreatic cancer.
Meads, who in 1999 was named New Zealand's greatest rugby player of the 20th Century, was diagnosed with cancer last year and died in hospital in his home town of Te Kuiti on Sunday.
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