The medical researcher, working on treatments for diabetes and heart disease, was among a set of locals including nurses and teachers, chosen after the games for reduced-cost housing schemes to help “key workers” afford London’s lofty rents. Little did mother and son know then, they would soon be living in apartments built for the games’ sporting stars - or that an Olympic legacy of massive inflation in local rents would later force them out of their home city altogether. A month later she followed suit, dancing with a group of women who, like her, suffer from impaired vision, in the opening show of the Paralympic Games.
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