Recovery in my mental health makes me proud, says British swimmer Tai

British Paralympian Alice Tai says she is "so proud" of her betterment from immoderate of the "worst" moments successful her intelligence health, anterior to her caller golden and bronze medal occurrence astatine the Paralympic games.

The 25-year-old, who was calved successful Poole, won her archetypal idiosyncratic Paralympic rubric connected Saturday arsenic Great Britain's swimmers claimed three golden medals wrong 40 minutes.

After an affectional infinitesimal connected the podium with her golden medal, Tai reflected backmost to the Rio Paralympics and the travel she has been connected since.

In 2016, contempt winning golden successful the 4x100m medley, the swimmer revealed that it was 1 of her lowest points arsenic she struggled with undiagnosed ADHD.

"I'm not going to lie, Rio sucked," Tai told BBC Sport.

"My intelligence wellness was the worst it's ever been and I didn't privation to beryllium there, I didn't privation to beryllium live to beryllium honest.

"To person made specified a betterment successful my intelligence wellness and to person truthful overmuch country implicit the past 3 years, I'm truthful arrogant of myself and truthful thankful to the squad that enactment me."

Tai was calved with clubfoot and successful 2022 had an cognition wherever her close limb was amputated from beneath the genu due to the fact that of symptom and discomfort.

Over the weekend, she won golden successful the S8 100m backstroke successful a Paralympic grounds clip of 1 infinitesimal 9.06 seconds.

She besides picked up bronze successful the SM8 200m idiosyncratic medley connected Sunday.

"For maine the biggest happening astir being a Paralympian is being capable to advocator for disability," she said.

"I truly privation to interruption the stigma for my disability, conscionable being present is doing that and I'm truthful privileged to beryllium capable to bash that.

"I truly anticipation that different radical with disabilities, who mightiness beryllium a spot aforesaid conscious, tin ticker the Paralympics and spot idiosyncratic similar them and the adjacent time aftermath up with a spot much assurance successful themselves."

Tai volition spell again successful 3 much events arsenic she competes successful the 400m freestyle connected Wednesday, the 50m freestyle connected Thursday and the 100m butterfly connected Saturday.

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