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Rio 2016: The new teens on the block
- Updated: September 14, 2016
What do five teenagers do on a Wednesday morning? Well if they happen to be in Rio they could take part in the women’s (or should I say girls’?) T35 100m. The winner was 17-year-old Xia Zhou of China in a Paralympic record of 13.66, with Australian 15-year-old Isis Holt second and Britain’s Maria Lyle, aged 16, third.
Zhou said that her life was “mostly just training”.
“I finished school so now I can put all my focus on training,” she added. Holt, on the other hand, is still at school and juggling training with schoolwork. “It gets pretty tricky, but all of my teachers and my coach help me manage it and at the end of the day it does not seem so hard,” she said, adding that her class would be watching her race in Rio at school.
The last time I spoke with Lyle and Holt was in Qatar for the IPC World Championships and now again in Brazil. Their lives seem quite surreal. Holt said: “It is pretty incredible and …
