Tanni Grey-Thompson: Britain's Greatest Paralympic Athlete

Meet GameChangers competition judge Tanni Grey-Thompson, Britain's greatest ever paralympic athlete and one of the most gifted and courageous sportswomen of her generation. In this video, Grey-Thompson—who broke 35 world records as a wheelchair athlete—says being born with spina bifida "didn't really play a big part in my life."

"But other people around me saw it as something that is very negative," she said. Grey-Thompson was confined to a wheelchair from the age of seven, but she found that "having a wheelchair was the most positive thing that ever happened, because it gave me the freedom to do the things I wanted."

Grey-Thompson began wheelchair racing at 13. She won 11 gold, 3 silver, and a bronze medal over 16 years and five Paralympic Games, crowning her magnificent career with two gold medals in the 100 and 400 metres in the 2004 Athens Paralympics.

"We're all normal," she concludes, "it's just there's lots of different sorts of normal."