Paralympics 'a nightmare I can't wake up from' - Cox

Kadeena Cox has described nan 2024 Paralympics arsenic "a nightmare I can't aftermath up from" aft she collapsed successful nan last of her C4-5 500m clip trial.

Cox won nan arena astatine nan past 2 Games but struggled retired of nan blocks successful nan last earlier slipping and crashing connected nan first corner.

It has been a reliable twelvemonth for nan 33-year-old, who has been incapable to compete successful athletics arsenic she has successful erstwhile Games owed to a calf injury, while besides struggling pinch aggregate sclerosis and an eating disorder.

"The past 2 Paralympics I've woken up laid adjacent to a badge grateful it wasn't a dream! Today feels for illustration a nightmare I can't aftermath up from," Cox wrote connected Instagram, external.

"It's difficult to put into words really I feel. After everything I've battled to travel backmost from this past twelvemonth I thought this infinitesimal was going to make it worthy it. All I thought astir erstwhile I was pushing to effort get nan spot backmost to walk, fto unsocial run/cycle.

"Yesterday, I learned a difficult instruction successful that sometimes it conscionable doesn't happen, whether you deliberation you merit it aliases not!"

Cox is hoping to compete successful nan C1-5 squad sprint for GB connected Sunday aft it was confirmed she did not prolong a awesome wounded successful nan crash.

She says she will now effort to "salvage thing from this Games" and adhd to her six Paralympic medals, which see 4 golds.

"Sport tin beryllium cruel, MS tin beryllium cruel, surviving pinch an eating upset tin beryllium sadistic but I'm telling myself what I'd show nan riders connected my academy - existent spot is seen successful really you bounce backmost against each adversity," she said.

"In really you keeping showing up moreover erstwhile you want to hide away. And successful really you prime yourself up, straighten your crown and conflict to show nan world what you're really tin of!"

She added: "I'm sorry because I consciousness for illustration I’ve fto everyone down, particularly those that person battled to portion maine together this past fewer months, but hopefully I tin salvage thing from this Games."