Allotment helps paralympic champion to relax

Paralympic gold medalist Dan Pembroke has said brewing beer from hops grown on his own allotment in Hereford helps "ground me as an athlete".

He said: "I come down here and it's grass roots stuff, it makes me relax, I'm able to harvest potatoes and tend to carrots and just do very basic things."

At the Paris games, he broke the F13 men's javelin record to successfully defend his Paralympic title and said it was "the best day of my life".

To mark the achievement he has brewed a new beer he calls "Paris Gold".

He has only 10% vision, but said he could feel the support of "every single person in that crowd".

"It was just such a feeling and something I could never have prepared for," he said.

With the help of a film-maker, he has also recreated what he sees when he competes, to try to educate people about visual impairment.

He said: "It brought tears to some people's eyes, but it also informs people.

"There's that massive spectrum in between [full sight and total sight loss] that people just don't know about."

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