When Archie Atkinson crashed, one lap away from a gold medal in his first Paralympic Games, and metres away from breaking his own world record, his instinct was to quit. He left with a silver medal, b

At 16, I was on top of the world. I was double World Youth champion, I’d been the fastest 14-year-old of all time in Europe, and I already had a shoe contract. At 15, I was UK champion over the 100 an

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Nearly two-thirds of girls drop out of sport by the time they reach puberty – but teenager Issey Kyson is on a mission to change that. The 17-year-old athlete has spent the last few years balancing me