New Zealand rugby union great Brian Lochore touches the coffin of fellow player Colin Meads during his funeral in Te Kuiti, New Zealand, August 28, 2017. REUTERS/Hannah Peters/Pool
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - All Blacks great Colin Meads was a supremely competitive family man who was passionate about New Zealand rugby, yet would faint at the sight of blood and even learned to knit as a child, his brother Stan said in a eulogy to the former lock on Monday.
Meads, who in 1999 was named New Zealand's greatest rugby player of the 20th Century, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year and the former lock died in hospital in his home town of Te Kuiti on Aug. 20.
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