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In your 2001 autobiography, Seize the Day,¹Seize the Day: My autobiography (Hodder & Stoughton)  you wrote: ‘For me, disability has not been about overcoming things. That is why I find it hard to understand when people say I’m a role model.’ It seemed to me, as I read about (for example) the metal rod that was put in your spine, that you have overcome adversity.

Isn’t that, in part, what makes Paralympic athletes seem so special to many people? Or is that a misapprehension?

No, because some of them have had to deal with a huge amount of adversity.

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You know, I grew up in a middle-class family, with a dad who was an architect in a well-paid job, a full-time mum and a brilliant older sister. I had a good education, and supportive parents, and we had two cars and we went on nice holidays – there’s no adversity in that. And there’s no adversity in me wanting to be an athlete and training hard and it happening.

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