When Dame Sarah Storey made history with a 17th gold medal last summer it could have been the perfect moment to ride off into the sunset, but Britain’s greatest ever Paralympian had already decided what she called the “lockdown Games” were no way to sign off.
Storey, 43, took victory in the individual pursuit, road race and time trial in Tokyo to break Mike Kenny’s British medal record, but while she rightly celebrated her achievement a Paralympics hugely compromised by the Covid-19 pandemic were not the joyous occasion they should have been.
