Former Leeds student Dame Sarah Storey gets ready for record in Rio

former leeds student Dame Sarah Storey will travel to Rio de Janerio as an 11-time Paralympic champion, with gold medals in the pool and on the bike.
Dame Sarah Storey travels to Rio de Janeiro as an 11-times Paralympic champion. PIC: PADame Sarah Storey travels to Rio de Janeiro as an 11-times Paralympic champion. PIC: PA
Dame Sarah Storey travels to Rio de Janeiro as an 11-times Paralympic champion. PIC: PA

Dame Sarah – who went to Leeds Beckett University – studied at will defend individual pursuit title on September 8 and she will be Britain’s most successful female Paralympian, with more gold medals than wheelchair racer Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson.

The Paralympics, which follow the Olympic Games, has been in chaos with money in short supply, only 12 per cent of tickets sold three weeks out from the Games.

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International Paralympic Committee president Sir Philip Craven admitted it was the worst build-up to a modern Paralympics. This is the 15th edition, and it will 
take place despite – and probably amid – the chaos. The games will run from September 10-17.

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