sport, paralympics-2021
Dylan Alcott and Curtis McGrath once again experienced the ultimate Paralympic success to headline Australia’s penultimate day in Tokyo. Australia will head into Sunday sitting eighth in the medal tally, with 20 gold – just two behind its Rio haul. Wheelchair tennis gun Alcott notched up his fourth career gold medal – and third on the tennis court after first medalling as a teenager in wheelchair basketball – in Saturday’s quad singles, then declared Tokyo would be his fourth and final Paralympics. “I’m not coming back to the Paralympics ever again and I love it so much, it means so much to me,” Alcott told the Seven Network after the medal ceremony. “When I was 17 I got to go with the Rollers and we won gold and it was life-changing but Paralympic sport in general, it saved my life.” Saturday’s 7-6 (7-2) 6-1 victory over Sam Schroder keeps Alcott’s “golden…
