A close encounter with a Paralympic gold medal this morning up at the Paralympic Village.

I'd gone up there to produce a sequence for Woman's Hour with shooting gold medallist Isabel Newstead and Daily Telegraph journalist Gareth Davies.



Isabel now has seven Paralympic medals scattered around the Essex home.

I assumed they'd be framed on the walls or displayed on the mantlepiece.

Not so.

She told me they're hidden away in cupboards all over the house -- and she wouldn't be able to find them all in a hurry if her life depended on it.

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