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- Updated: September 14, 2016
It was not the way it was supposed to happen. It was one of the saddest moments of Rio 2016. When the screen showed that the T11 200m athlete in lane three had an illegal reaction time and the official held up the red card, it was not just any athlete who was disqualified.
It was Terezinha Guilhermina, the poster girl for the Rio Paralympics. Her image is everywhere in Rio. She features on the promo video, which is shown endlessly. But more than that she is the darling of the Brazilian crowd.
Guilhermina is a legend of para-athletics, with seven world gold medals and three Paralympic golds to her name. But what would adding to that number in her home country have meant to her?
I first met Guilhermina in a mixed zone in Glasgow …
