Milly Pickles says that joining Channel 4's Paralympics presenting team for 2024 feels like a full circle moment - revealing she trained for two years for the 100m sprint after losing her leg. Milly, 27, whose leg was amputated after she was electrocuted in 2017, said her first words to her parents after the devastating amputation were: "At least I can compete in the Paralympics." She has now put her athletics ambition to one side, but is thrilled to have landed a role as a roving TV reporter in Paris this month.
Speaking on the Daily Mirror's Invite Only podcast, she said: "I feel like it's very new to me, reporting and being live on TV is something that I've not experienced before. But, I just love the Paralympics. I actually trained for two years in the 100m sprints.
After I had my accident, when the surgeons came into the room and told me I was losing my leg, the first thing I thought and said to my parents was: 'At least I can be in the Paralympics.' "I was just so desperate to focus on something that I could do now that I couldn't do before. So I trained for two years and every day for those two years, I said to myself: 'I will be in the 2024 Paralympics.
' And I am now, just not in the way that I expected. So I think it's epic and I'm just unbelievably excited." Milly was a student at Bournemouth University in September 2022 when her life changed forever.
The circumstances around her accident remain unclear, but she remembers vividly being shocked by a current of 750 vo.