WHAT IT’S LIKE TO… MAKE WHEELCHAIR RUGBY HISTORY
THERE WERE times, during the call to Ryan Cowling, when it was difficult to know whether moments of silence were down to the signal cutting out or the GB athlete becoming overcome with emotion. In truth, we think it was both.
Cowling was not afforded the glory of the try-scoring high pointers – Stuart Robinson, Aaron Phipps, Jim Roberts – in GB’s gold medal-winning wheelchair rugby team. But his value to the squad that reaped GB’s first Paralympics medal in the sport was and is incalculable. When it came to the crunch games, the semi-final v Japan and the final v USA, Cowling was on
