Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest.

I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.

So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.

It's been a dream for me since I was six years old to go to the Olympic Games and to finally have that dream realised is something massive for me.