'An absolute disgrace': ParalympicsGB chief on Tanni Grey-Thompson’s train ordeal

it's an absolute disgrace and it's the lived experience of disabled people though on a on a daily basis it just doesn't get reported after 16 minutes of sitting at King's cross no one in sight there were a couple of cleaners but they're not insured or able to help me off um I decided that I'd crawl off the train from our perspective what we're trying to do as a par Olympics GB is through sport inspire a better world for disabled people it doesn't matter if that's education if that's in life if that's in society we want change and our athletes want change you should as a disabled person be able to get on and off a train and go about your daily living but the reality is it's far more difficult than that

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