Kiwi swimmer Sophie Pascoe gave it her all as they took home another gold medal at the Tokyo Paralympics.
After finishing the 200m medley race, the 28-year-old Paralympian was left utterly exhausted and vomited, blacked out and required oxygen.
“I left it all out there, and some of it on the side of the pool. That’s what a fight is all about, right, and I really wanted to make this a four-peat,” she told TVNZ.
“I remember leaving some of my insides on the side of the pool then receiving some medical treatment and it’s a bit of a blackout moment for me. I was cut out of my togs and received some oxygen and woke up, came back to the world and slowly started to get myself back.”
Pascoe battled with Hungary’s Zsofia Konkoly to take home her fourth gold medal in the gruelling medley race.
She says it was her last time competing in the event.”I can say you have just witnessed my last ever 200 IM. I will be cutting the events down now so it is nice to finish on a positive and with a gold.”
Pascoe first entered the Paralympics in Beijing in 2008 at age 15 and has since won 11 golds and 19 medals in total, making her New Zealand’s most successful Paralympic athlete.
She is set to compete in her last event on Thursday in the 100-metre butterfly.
