Michael McKillop: 'I’m going to go out all guns blazing'

Michael McKillop. Picture: INPHO/Tommy Dickson

Though he hasn’t officially announced his intentions, middle-distance runner Michael McKillop has hinted the coming week could prove to be the closing chapter in his extraordinary Paralympics career.

A four-time gold medallist (spread across the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Games), the Antrim man kick-starts his latest - and perhaps final - bid for a podium place in the 1500m T38 heats at the Tokyo National Stadium on Friday. All of McKillop’s previous Paralympic triumphs were in the T37 classification, but the subsequent decision to move all the middle-distance events to T38 has presented the 31-year-old with quite the challenge in recent years.