00:00a lot of individuals that went to London 2012 and said it was the best games ever. I think
00:06because it really incorporated what it was like to be British and all the good points of being
00:12British and London was a great city for those four to six weeks that the Olympics and Paralympics
00:18were on. It really embodied the kind of the history of the country, the coming together,
00:25the inclusivity of Olympic and Paralympic athletes and everybody was encouraged and
00:32supported to get to the events. The events were inclusive, the events were accessible,
00:39everybody came away with new experiences of what a person with a disability can do and not what
00:49the problems and the can't do for people with disabilities. We still need to do more. I still
00:54put on that GB tracksuit and I still feel kind of inspired to do more for the community but I'm
01:02also very grateful for the support that I've had up to this point. At the age of 14 after a lot of
01:08recovery and a lot of operations I discovered wheelchair basketball and that was kind of love
01:13at first sight in a way that it was the first time that I could play a sport without having pain,
01:18without having the fear of having pain in my leg or like destroy it or something. So from that
01:24moment on I knew I had a new dream. I found a new sport, it was wheelchair basketball and I wanted
01:30to go to the Paralympic Games and I wanted to win gold medals. When I say it, it still like sounds
01:35like a dream in a way that I still cannot believe that we actually did it but every time I'm allowed
01:41to say it I feel nothing less than proud. It's just yeah I'm so proud of the fact we achieved
01:47it as a team. It was just amazing because obviously it's a home games, you have all your friends and
01:52family there, you had icons that you know were representing GB at the Olympics before we went
01:57because it was amazing while we were still training. You know you get to watch the Olympians
02:01go, you get to watch them competing while you're still getting ready so it helps you build up, it
02:06like gets you really excited. Like for me when I first started wheelchair rugby there was only a
02:12real small handful of women in the whole of wheelchair rugby around the world, not just
02:19you know UK. So and there wasn't really many at club level, there was a few so I didn't really
02:24have many to look up to and then to be one of the only two at the Games itself was amazing.
02:29To be the actual first woman like I didn't even know that before we went to the Games, they said
02:32it to me in the media zone on the way out and they were like you do know you're the first woman to
02:36ever win gold and I was like no I haven't got a clue, I didn't realise. I was like can you fact
02:41check that before you actually say that you know. Sometimes it's hard, the guys are you know
02:47full of testosterone, throwing their weight around, their strength, they're really fast,
02:51they're you know they're really strong, it's different but at the same time I love it,
02:56they're just my teammates, they treat me the same, they always did which is amazing.
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