Peter Eriksson: ex-Paralympic coach
MARK SHEARMAN
BRITISH ATHLETICS will continue to push its Paralympic athletes in tough environments alongside the country’s best able-bodied stars, UK Athletics chairman Ed Warner said.
Warner, speaking after the end of a record-breaking Games for ParalympicsGB, said the national governing body has focused on integrating Paralympic and able-bodied athletes for eight years, since hiring former Paralympic head coach Peter Eriksson.
“It emphasises to them just what they have to do if they want to win a medal in a place like this,” he said.
The chairman said the system over the past eight years has helped cut the wheat from chaff. “There are no shortcuts and those who have not applied themselves to the utmost over the past four years, many have been found out here. And those are lessons which have been learned here,” he said.