Wheels in motion on road to Rio
Since Madison de Rozario sat in her first racing wheelchair 11 years ago, the Paralympian has excelled.
"At age 12 I played wheelchair basketball. My coach had a racing wheelchair in the storeroom and I tried it out," she said.
"I started racing in 2006 and Louise Sauvage started coaching me in early 2008."
At just 14, de Rozario was the youngest competitor at the Beijing Paralympics where her 4x100 relay team won the silver medal.
The young competitor has set her sights on Rio de Janeiro, when she will be just 22.
It will be her third Paralympics.
De Rozario said she was on track for this target, though her training has had a few hiccups. "I'm coming off six months of injury," she said.
"I had a deep vein thrombosis on the flight to the Commonwealth Games and couldn't compete.
"When I got back into training I spilt boiling water on myself, so January was my first major competition back."
De Rozario raced well at January's Summer Down Under series to qualify for the World Championships in October and aims to race in the 800m, 1500m and 5000m at Rio de Janeiro.
De Rozario has had transverse myelitis since she was three years old, which caused inflammation in her spine.
She was pleased with Channel 7's announcement yesterday the station had signed an agreement for all-encompassing coverage of the 2015 Paralympics.
"It's amazing. The first Olympics I competed in Beijing was the best coverage I've had and it has kept improving ever since," she said.
