When Burkina Faso’s Paralympic team arrived in London with nowhere to stay, nowhere to train and not enough money to salvage the situation in a strange country, 24 year old Liam Conlon decided to take matters into his own hands.
The Cambridge graduate put some of the athletes up in his Essex home, made them food before and after training and found them somewhere to train.
“Their government funding was late, I found out there was a problem with their accommodation and training arrangements a few weeks prior to their arrival, however …