“I’m not a superhuman”

As things stood, it wasn’t an optimal situation. On a peaceful Sunday morning, three weeks before the Olympics, Paralympic legend Dame Sarah Storey found herself participating in a charity event on a rural road in Sussex. “There was a rather aggressive driver in a speeding car who seemed determined to teach us a lesson,” she recalled. “He honked his horn and zipped past us at an unnecessary speed. He came dangerously close, if something had been coming from the opposite direction, he would have caused a head-on collision.” It’s uncertain whether he recognized whom he was intimidating. “I was dressed in my World Championship attire…”