article_snippet: The female athletes explained what Trust had done for The female athletes careers.
article_snippet: I was in Belfast, it was the height of the Troubles, and I didn't have a running track.
article_snippet: the fellowship gave me the opportunity to go to Pasadena in California to train for six weeks. '
article_snippet: There was sunshine every day, I had the most amazing time training in May and June, and was successful in Munich in the September.'
article_snippet: I went to Perth in Australia to look at their methods of identifying talent, and although their methods of identifying talent are very good, it was useful for me to realise that their would not work here because their weather is so much better and their have a smaller population. '
article_snippet: That was useful for me to know when I joined the board of UK Sport in 1997.'
article_snippet: At the time of her visit to Australia, her had competed in two of her five paralympics, collecting four of her 11 golds.