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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Paul MacInnes

Britain is ‘incredibly scary for disabled people’, says Hannah Cockroft

Britain's Hannah Cockroft competes in the women's 800m (T33) athletics final during the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games
Hannah Cockroft will be favourite to retain her T34 100m and 800m titles at the Paris Paralympics. Photograph: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images

Britain is an “incredibly scary place for disabled people right now”, according to the leading Paralympian Hannah Cockroft who says the government is “failing to listen” to the needs of some of the most vulnerable people in society.

The wheelchair racer and seven time Paralympic gold medal winner will be favourite to retain her T34 100m and 800m titles in Paris this year. But between now and her fourth Games a series of challenges remain for the 31-year-old and not all of them are on the track.

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