A Quote by Kadeena Cox
I want more gold medals. I only got two in Rio so it would be nice to make it four.
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I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals.
Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.
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Rio in four years; I've got more inspiration in the last two, three weeks. I'm sure I'm going to get more in the Paralympics in the next coming weeks, so by the end of this season, I'm going to take a month off, and then the next four years is going to be good.
I want to be in Tokyo. I want to defend my titles and I want to change these medals into gold medals.
When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
If I hadn't won at the Worlds and claimed so many ranking points, I would have been struggling for Rio. I'm in a good place now, though, and having the chance to fight for gold in Rio after everything I've been through would be a dream.
My ultimate dream was to get to the Olympics. I never thought I would come away with two gold medals.
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You know, me winning two gold medals, going for a third one, that's nice. But being there with Mark and my sister, and my brother being the coach, it's a dream come true. It's going to be awesome.
It would be pretty special if I could win two Olympic gold medals, one at the Summer Games and one from the Winters, so I'm going to give it a real go.
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