Britain’s most decorated Paralympian on making history in Tokyo and why she believes she is yet to reach her full potential
“Oh, it was raining much harder than this,” Dame Sarah Storey says before taking another mouthful of pizza on a miserable afternoon in London as she remembers the more testing conditions she endured when winning her historic 17th Paralympic gold medal in Tokyo in September. The epic road race around the foothills of Mount Fuji was cloaked in driving rain and ghostly fog which makes an al fresco lunch beneath a canopy on a wet winter afternoon in Stratford seem almost summery.
“The rain was bouncing, going halfway up your wheels and more,” she says as she tucks into her pizza. “There were hail stones at one point. It was so dreadful and photographs from the day show just how mad it was.”
