I was lucky enough to go to Tokyo last year to work for Channel 4 on the Paralympics and the first sport I covered was the wheelchair rugby…. which turned out to be one of the best few days of sport I’ve ever witnessed. Not only was I blown away by the standard of competition but GB ended up winning the Gold medal. Their firs ever team sports gold at any Paralympics.

One of GBs key players and biggest characters that immediately gained a new no1 fan in myself is Kylie Grimes.

Kylie had a life changing spinal cord injury back in 2006 which put an end to her promising show jumping and athletics prospects but despite her high level of injury which now means she uses a wheelchair she has literally just cracked on in life and bares a level of acceptance of her injury that puts me to shame. She really has become a big inspiration to me since meeting her at the Tokyo games and I loved this chat with her.

Insta: @kyliegrimes7
Twi: @kyliegrimes

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