'No event can prepare you for the Paralympics' – Alice Tai on life after Rio and the build-up to Tokyo Paralympics
The TelegraphAged 13, Paralympic swimmer Alice Tai was given a notebook by her father. It was ahead of the London 2012 swimming trials, her first major competition, and though she did not qualify then, she has diligently recorded her times and results in the book from every meet since. Scrawled on the back page are the ambitions she wrote down as soon as she received it: “Win medals at the Paralympics and hold a British, European and world record.” Every one of her wildest sporting dreams had been completed by the time she was 17. Not only did she make it to the Rio Games in 2016, she and her team also broke the 4 x 100 metres medley relay 34 points world record. Such is Tai’s success that she takes a while to even remember how many world records she holds in total.
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