Mikolaj Oledzki ready for historic Wembley appearance after remarkable rugby league journey
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mirror.co.ukThe Challenge Cup final has been littered with memorable stories over its 123-year history, but none quite like that of Mikolaj Oledzki.
When the Leeds Rhinos prop arrived in this country from Poland aged eight, his main sporting interests were gymnastics and swimming, and he barely spoke any English.
On Saturday he will become the first Polish-born player to feature in a Challenge Cup final, and does so with the public best wishes of his country’s foreign embassy.
Pockets of his family in Gdansk and Warsaw will be tuning in to watch Saturday’s clash with Salford Red Devils, the culmination of a remarkable rugby league journey that began as an excited teen on the Headingley terraces.
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