Former ACT Brumby Ita Vaea all smiles in rugby comeback from life-threatening blood clots

By Chris Dutton
Updated April 23 2018 - 11:08pm, first published August 1 2014 - 1:20pm

He's the trimmed down, hard-running, softly spoken Tongan No.8 who came close to having an on-field stroke – or worse.

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