Rnib Sport

Here on RNIB Connect Radio we are catching up with some of the Paralympics GB visually impaired medal winners from the Tokyo Paralympic Games to find out how they got into sport, what winning that medal was like out in Tokyo and their advice for other visually impaired people on how to get into sport at any level. Our Toby Davey court up with Aileen McGlynn who with her Pilot Hellen Scott won a Silver Cycling medal in the velodrome in Tokyo. Aileen began by telling Toby about getting on to a bicycle for the first time by borrowing her neighbour's child's bike, how at the age of 8 using her first Holy Communion money and savings to buy her own first proper bike, going on a 10-mile trip not long after buying that first bike to see one of her school friends and then joining a local cycling club.   For Aileen it was watching the 2002 Commonwealth Games and seeing Chris Hoy win his Gold medal for Scotland that really got Aileen interested in cycling as a sport. Aileen then talks about how she got in to Para