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Tanni Grey-Thompson

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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What is an unusual habit or an absurd thing that you love?

One thing that I did was race against the British men a lot and they used to push me round the road; they used to make my life really hard but then when I was racing against the best women in the world, I'd been through just about every experience you could imagine. I remember this one race – a half marathon – where my husband literally pushed me into every kerb he could find, he pushed me into every corner, you know, messed around and tried to drop me out the back of the pack. Then when you're in a race that really matters, if that happens, you've got the skills to deal with it… you need to have practised everything you possibly could in the lead up to it.

Recorded Bernardo Moya, The Best You Magazine, 21 August 2015 source

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