Kadeena Cox

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'm not very good at making decisions.

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

In 2016 I was fresh and raw and it was grit and determination which got me to the gold medal. Nobody really knew me and what I was capable of.

There are times when I'm on the athletics track when I can't control my movement or I'm not able to maintain my hip stability and I am wobbling all over the place.

I spend a lot of time thinking and worrying about fatigue. It is the thing I struggle with the most.

I want more gold medals. I only got two in Rio so it would be nice to make it four.

I finished my degree and realized I had a lot of free time on my hands.

I like a challenge and I like being able to prove to me and everyone else that I can do crazy things - even with a dodgy knee.

I love the buzz of racing and being competitive and trying to push myself to be the best that I can be.

One of the things that really does annoy me is just comments on my hair. Like 'your hair's not tidy,' or 'Ooh, what's this?' Just little comments that I just think are so inappropriate. Sometimes I'm just like, 'Is it really necessary?' But you know, as a black female, you do learn to just brush these things off, which isn't the way it should be.

Sometimes I feel like you have to be a different person - you kind of morph into that person that fits in.

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!'

I love bobsleigh.

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've been out with injury, health struggles and I've really struggled with my mental health, so to be able to get back and be on the start line has been a challenge. I'm excited just to be there, but obviously I expect a lot of myself and I'm pretty sure other people expect me to come out and be able to still dominate.

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

I've been so close on so many occasions and had so many horrendous injuries. You go from hamstring tear to hamstring tear and achilles problems and then you get MS! But you've got to keep going, which I did and I've got the kit and a world record and the world title.

I've gone from being an 11.9sec runner to being a 13.5sec runner which mentally is quite hard.

For me its a struggle because I don't have a visible disability and a lot of companies want to tick a box to say they've got a partnership with a disabled athlete. But if the rest of the world can't see that they're disabled then they don't think it's worth it.

I've never had a kit sponsor. I get kit sent to me by a company but they wouldn't sign me on a proper deal. It's frustrating.

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

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

I used to not plan ahead because of the condition I've got. But I've put that at the back of mind and not let MS control my life.

I would never have picked up cycling had it not been for my disability because it just wasn't something I saw. You see someone riding past in their Lycra and it's normally white, middle-class males and I never would have seen myself in that position, being an elite cyclist.

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.

Sprinting is my stress relief, something to do to relax. I don't know what I would do without it.

I wanted to empower other people and prove even with invisible conditions like mine that you can achieve things if you put your mind to it and work hard. So I definitely see myself as a role model in some weird and wonderful way.

I had the world against me. I was told I shouldn't be doing sport and that I wouldn't go to the Paralympics. I've had so many barriers.

One of the reason I did two sports because I wanted to do something special or different.

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 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 am very research-driven, especially when it comes to my body.

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.

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.

One of the key things that I learnt on 'MasterChef' was time management.

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

It's been tricky trying to deal with managing my eating, having so many people around me and so many eyes on me, it's pushed me to do more extreme things which is frustrating for me.

I started my cycling academy to try and get more people from a BAME background into cycling.

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 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 have a sports science degree.

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 want to learn how to ride a bike properly - not like a runner.

2018 is a big year for me with the Commonwealths in April and my university dissertation due in May so a World Championships in March would be difficult.

People don't understand the classification process and they also don't understand a condition like MS and how it has different effects on different people. Neurological conditions are all so different because we don't know what people have gone through and how their brains adapt to it all and you can't assess everything with the naked eye.

When people say there are people who are faking it, if I had a choice I wouldn't want to have a disability.

I want to be in Tokyo. I want to defend my titles and I want to change these medals into gold medals.

It would be nice to do a winter and a summer Olympics in the same cycle.