Gary O’Reilly: 'The pedals were hitting my stomach and my shoulders were hitting the wheels'

When you see Gary O'Reilly competing in the Tokyo Paralympics you’ll see an elite athlete powering along in a hand bike but few can conceive of his battle since suffering life-changing injuries in a work accident.

Gary O’Reilly: 'The pedals were hitting my stomach and my shoulders were hitting the wheels'

When Gary O’Reilly first got his racing hand bike, he was afraid to start using it.

“I got it into the house and just looked at it for a week but the minute I got into it I just couldn’t get out of it.”