Peacock 'ready to fight' for third Paralympic gold

Jonnie Peacock says he will beryllium "ready to fight" arsenic he targets a 3rd Paralympic golden badge astatine Paris 2024.

The 31-year-old Briton won golden astatine London 2012 and Rio 2016 but had to settee for associated bronze successful nan T64 100m last successful Tokyo 3 years ago.

More recently, Peacock has been affected by injures and issues pinch his technique, and vanished 5th successful past year's World Championships.

However, he says he is "running amended than I person tally for nan past 4 years".

Asked what his extremity was successful Paris, he told BBC Sport's Sally Hurst: "It's a very shiny medal. When you've won a golden medal, metallic medals aren't that fun. They are ever a disappointment.

"I consciousness for illustration I tin conflict again. That's thing that's really important for me. The past fewer years I've been disconnected balance, correct connected nan ragged separator of my method wherever that if I person to push a small spot more, I suffer it. Not immoderate more."

The Games get nether measurement pinch nan opening ceremonial connected Wednesday successful Paris pinch nan T64 100m last connected Monday astatine nan Stade de France.

Peacock became 1 of nan stories of nan London 2012 Paralympics, winning nan T44 100m golden while still a teen soon aft mounting a world grounds of 10.85 seconds.

A 2nd Paralympic title, 2 world titles and 2 European titles followed by 2017 but golds person since proved elusive during what he describes arsenic a "torrid" period.

Referencing nan Tokyo Games successful 2021, he added: "I'm still irritated from 3 years ago. I get an opportunity to rectify that mistake. I will beryllium going successful there, going to war, and I'll beryllium fresh to conflict and hopefully each my competitors are fresh because location is going to beryllium a battle.

"This is my 4th clip and it's besides my 4th clip contesting. Every different jock successful that field, it's only going to beryllium their 2nd time. I besides person acquisition pinch 80,000 group going mad.

"Whether they will beryllium going rather arsenic huffy for maine remains to beryllium seen, but I americium ace excited for that and I americium really looking guardant to get into that stadium and emotion what it's like.

"The unit for maine is portion of my toolkit. The much unit you springiness me, nan faster I run. I cognize that not each of my competitors tin opportunity that."

Peacock is impressed by nan level of promotion he is seeing for nan Paralympics while travelling astir Paris and says that it "feels for illustration it's backmost to normal again" aft financial problems affected Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 took spot without fans because of Covid-19.

"Driving astir and seeing Paralympians connected posters, it's really cool. It feels for illustration London again successful that sense," he said.

"Ticket income sound good, hopefully we're going to spot sell-out stadiums and tons of noise."

The Briton has already considered his profession beyond Paris and afloat intends to beryllium competing astatine a 5th Paralympics successful Los Angeles successful 2028.

"I'll still beryllium here, you're not getting free of maine yet," he said. "This twelvemonth is really nan first twelvemonth I've felt bully for a while.

"I won't beryllium leaving conscionable yet, location is simply a batch much successful my body. I consciousness for illustration we're only conscionable getting backmost to wherever we near disconnected truthful you'll spot maine successful LA, touch wood."