“Wheelchair rugby is for all of us – young girls, young boys, youth, everybody,” Grimes said after winning gold.
Grimes was the only returning Paralympian of the group. After making her wheelchair rugby debut at the 2012 London Games, she took a detour to track & field in 2016.
“It was always my dream to come back,” the 33-year-old said earlier this week. “I was always at home with the boys, at home with the rugby and that’s where I should have been. Back then at the time, there wasn’t really a line for me, there wasn’t really much going on and I wanted to try an individual sport and see where I could get.”to help ensure that winning is determined by skill and fitness, rather than degree of disability. Wheelchair rugby players are classified on a scale from 0.5 to 3.
Grimes isn’t the only woman to leave the Tokyo Paralympics with a wheelchair rugby medal. Kurahashi Kae and Shae Graham competed in the bronze medal match, with Japan claiming the victory. Both Kurahashi and Graham saw about six minutes of playing time. Entering the Tokyo Paralympics, only one woman had won a medal in the sport: Canada’s Erika Schmutz, who claimed bronze at the 2008 Beijing Games.
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