Paris 2024 Paralympics | They will give us chills: Sarah Storey 

With 17 gold medals won over the course of 8 different editions of the Paralympic Games, Sarah Storey is currently the most decorated athlete in the history of Paralympics.

And yet, when in 1987 a 10-year-old girl - born with a deformity on her left hand - entered a swimming club in the Manchester region, her first coach told her that it was already too late to hope for the slightest result.

Less than 5 years later, when she was not yet 15, the teenager left the Barcelona Paralympic Games with not only two gold medals around her neck (100m backstroke and 200m medley), but also 3 silver medals and 1 bronze! Her career is launched on incredible foundations and will continue at the same pace: after Barcelona, come Atlanta, Sydney and Athens, and 10 new medals - including 3 in gold - which come fill her drawers.

From the swimming pool to the velodrome

However, repeated ear infections oblige the champion to leave the pools; regardless, she has a thirst for competition, and it is by bike, on the velodrome track as well as on the road, that she will now exert her talents. Incredible talents, since she will win everything, almost: in Beijing, during her 5th Games, Sarah won two new gold medals, in the women’s individual pursuit and time trial.

Four years later, at home, in front of her audience, the woman who became a member of the Order of the British Empire, adorned herself with 4 new gold medals and shocked an entire nation!

Dame Sarah remains insatiable: Rio then Tokyo bring her 6 new titles. She shatters all records, denies all predictions and enters hearts at the same time as History.

Between two Paralympics, Sarah also took the time to get married and have two children: a girl and a boy, now aged 11 and 7 respectively. Her number one and two supporters, who will be by her side for Paris 2024, Sarah’s ninth Paralympic Games. How many new medals?