Hull's Chris Skelley and Scunthorpe's Victoria Rumary tell of their challenges ahead of Paris 2024.
But at the start of this year, the Hull athlete had been unsure if he would be able even to compete in the games., Skelley told BBC Look North that "it just broke me a bit" and "brought up a lot of demons in my own mind".
Rumary described that decision as "hard and upsetting", and added: ''I wanted to give up on life. It was, like, what was the point?" "This year, for some reason, the classifiers wanted a little bit more information on it – even though I've been classified for the last 14 years in Paralympic judo," he said.
Rumary has epilepsy, and as she got older her seizures became more severe. She was told surgery was her best option, and that proved successful, but an infection led to a severe seizure in 2013, and she has been unable to walk since.
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