'An absolute disgrace': ParalympicsGB chief on Tanni Grey-Thompson’s train ordeal

Penny Briscoe, the chef de mission of ParalympicsGB, said it was a 'disgrace' that Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson had to drag herself off a train in London’s Kings Cross because there was no help for wheelchair users, and warned it is 'the lived experience of disabled people on a daily basis'.
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Grey-Thompson, winner of 11 Paralympic gold medals, was on her way to the Games in Paris at the time of the ordeal. Briscoe added: 'As ParalympicsGB we’re trying to inspire a better world for disabled people through sport. It doesn’t matter if that’s education, if that’s in life, in society, we want change and our athletes want change.'

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