‘He gave me his heart’
84.75% Sophie Christiansen’s freestyle score at London 2012 – a Paralympic record that stood until Roxanne Tunnell’s Tokyo test
ON the finale to a Games where Britain had already achieved more than they ever believed, the unexpected success was the fuel to imagination’s fire of how the side could round off their phenomenal week. The team had always said that the plan for Tokyo was to build for Paris, giving their green horses the experience they needed to deliver in three years’ time.
But sport laughs in the face of plans – one of its beauties and its frustrations – so what could be expected from this quartet was, in a way, as unknown on the final day as it was the first.
So it was that Sir
