Sport was off his radar completely until an internship saw him spend eight months working in Dungarvan, where he noticed a local group going out for spins on Sunday mornings and joined them one day on his new bike-to-work scheme bike. I didn’t play any sports at all from my teenage years all through college but I would have always cycled a bike.”Ĭycling though was a mode of transport, first riding the kilometre or so to school and then, when he moved to Dublin, keeping up the tradition by riding the 6km to Trinity College where he studied pharmacy. “I was an eager hurler but I got bullied a bit as well so I didn’t really miss it. “Once I had that operation I stopped playing GAA,” he says. I can’t run for more than a couple of minutes on it so ball games were kind of out of the picture and then you’re worried about contact on it too.”Īfter that, Grimes, like many other youngsters with impairments or disabilities, found himself giving up sport altogether. When I was 11 or 12, they fused the metatarsals and my ankle was fairly fused already so it doesn’t move a whole lot. “In my case I never judged having a club foot as a disability because I’d been born with it,” says the 36-year-old Paracycling world road race champion. Still, Ronan Grimes can hold his own in the domestic peloton, he rode the Rás, so he couldn’t be disabled. Zoom in again and you might notice his left calf doesn’t have the same muscle his right one does. Lean closer and one foot appears to be smaller than the other. On further inspection, his saddle either looks too high or too low depending on what side you look from.
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