Kadeena Cox

“Unfortunately, I'm heat intolerant. I tend not to go in heat, I avoid the bath, I have lukewarm showers - and now I am throwing myself into the heat of Dubai and trying to run.”

“I was so much smaller before I had MS so I really struggle day to day to look in the mirror. I don't feel I recognize myself because I've never been as big.”

“I had only been cycling for a year before I went to Rio.”

“In athletics there are so many great elite athletes who look like me, so it was easy to fall into.”

“I watched 'Coach Carter,' it's like the best film ever!”

“I've had a lot of up-and-down times.”

“I've had a great coach, John Norfolk, who has taken me from a novice to a great cyclist.”

“I want to open a clinic of my open mainly looking at pediatrics and neurological conditions and incorporating my love of sport and physiotherapy knowledge together.”

“I'll stay on my bike until I've burnt a certain amount of calories or made sure I'm in negative calories for the end of the day.”

“I have a watch with all the calories I burn so I can track everything I do.”

“I take 18 to 19 tablets a day, plus an injection every other day. I get side-effects from some of the medication that aren't ideal. Plus, I hate having to inject myself. It's painful and it creates a few dramas.”

“I get slightly annoyed if I've got bushy eyebrows or I haven't got any make-up on, but apart from that I love chatting to new people.”

“I won't do anything rash. But I struggle with dystonia, or uncontrolled movement, and I know that yoga and Pilates can help with this. So can hydrotherapy. It's part of being a physiotherapist, I guess.”

“I have my turbo bike at home, so I can do high cadence stuff and interval sessions on there, and then I get out on the road once a week to do a 50km ride.”

“I am in a small minority as a black female with a disability. But I've shown that even with conditions like MS, it's not the setback that it has to be.”

“I feel that people think it's a really easy walk in the park - I just turn up and I'm always on top form. But the journey to that point is always a struggle.”

“I had an injury that just dug away at me. I would spend every track session crying, attempting to run and breaking down when I couldn't.”

“Having sport allowed me to forget about the ups and downs of my condition and think about a set goal, which was to become a Paralympic champion, to become a world champion.”

“MS is so poorly understood. I change day to day, not year to year, so I've no idea how I will be by the end of another full Olympic cycle. Come Tokyo 2020, I don't know whether I'll even be able to do one sport, let alone two.”

“Before Rio, I had never been at the top of the velodrome track but now I train from the top of the track.”