A biography for Kadeena Coxhasn’t been written yet.
“I was horrified that my life was going to revolve around not being independent.”
“With the athletes, there's a lot of diversity. But when you look at the management, coaching and the boards, there's not that much diversity there. I think it's diversity within those roles that's needed.”
“I watched the London Games as my coach had athletes in there. I saw the impact that the Paralympics had on the country and the world.”
“If you don't see someone, you don't think you can be it. People can see me and go on and do better than me.”
“There are times when I'm training and I literally feel like I'm about to pass out because I haven't eaten or what I have eaten hasn't been anything that's going to benefit me.”
“I've gone from being an 11.9sec runner to being a 13.5sec runner which mentally is quite hard.”
“I like to overfill my life.”
“I get recognized pretty much wherever I go now which is totally alien.”
“It's hard to get into something if you don't see someone like you who has done it.”
“I tried not to cry on the podium, I tried to enjoy this moment. I did enjoy Rio but was trying to go well that I didn't really, it's a bit overwhelming.”
“On the weekend of the Olympic trials, I lashed out at someone I'm really close to. I've lashed out at my mum, my siblings. It's so hard when all you want to do is compete, and your body's just denying you. But without my family, I'd be nothing.”
“Once you kind of get past doing the Yorkshire Championships, and the Northern Championships, and you go to the British Champs it's like, 'oh wow, diversity!'”
“Initially it was a journey about one girl who wanted to go to the Paralympics but over the two years it has become something I was doing for everyone else. The reason I wanted to do it so badly was so I could stand here and show it can be done even if you have setbacks.”
“The colour of my skin determines what opportunities I have; the colour of my skin says there's only room for one or two of us to be accepted in a certain job; the colour of my skin has dictated everything I've done in my whole life.”
“I have a quite a good understanding of the human body, but I feel like I've got two different people in my head. One of them is saying, 'You shouldn't be eating this' and the other is saying, 'you know you need to.' It's such a challenge.”
“I want to be able to do the Olympics and then do the Paralympics after.”
“I finished my degree and realized I had a lot of free time on my hands.”
“The only thing that's difficult is sometimes it's nice to be able to separate your home life from training life.”
“I have a 50 per cent chance of still being able to compete as an able-bodied athlete. But if not, I will compete as a paralympian.”
“I started my cycling academy to try and get more people from a BAME background into cycling.”