Penny Briscoe, the chef de mission of ParalympicsGB, said it was a ‘disgrace’ that Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson had to drag herself off a train in London’s Kings Cross because there was no help for wheelchair users, and warned it is ‘the lived experience of disabled people on a daily basis’. Grey-Thompson, winner of 11 Paralympic gold medals, was on her way to the Games in Paris at the time of the ordeal. Briscoe added: ‘As ParalympicsGB we’re trying to inspire a better world for disabled people through sport. It doesn’t matter if that’s education, if that’s in life, in society, we want change and our athletes want change.’
ParalympicsGB chief says Tanni Grey-Thompson’s train ordeal ‘a disgrace’
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