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British wheelchair racer, 1988–2007; member of the House of Lords
United Kingdom · b. 1969
Welsh wheelchair racer who won sixteen Paralympic medals, eleven of them gold, across five Games, and the London Marathon wheelchair race six times. She was made a life peer in 2010 and sits as a crossbench member of the House of Lords.
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We were training 12 to 15 times a week, 50 weeks of the year. I think sometimes people see you compete at the Paralympics or other amazing places around the world and think that is what you do all the time. There is an element of that, but a lot of it is just really boring and repetitive. The vast majority of your time as an athlete is spent on the road or in the gym.
Recorded International Paralympic Committee, 15 September 2016 source
I love training. It's not just about the competing. I had an amount of natural talent – you need that to go so far – but, actually, what I had, I think, is an ability to make myself work hard, to do the things I didn't like doing, to do the things that I wasn't so good at.
Recorded Oral history interview, People's Collection Wales, 1 January 2015 source
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