'It makes everything worth it' - Ball on goldpublished at 13:54 British Summer Time 1 September
Men's B 1,000m time trial final
ParalympicsGB's James Ball, speaking to Channel 4 after winning gold: "Unbelievable. The way it is done with the kilo and the seeding and just waiting for your turn to go up and then yeah, we knew we'd have to follow something big from Matt and Neil, this is how it's always gone. I think the last time we won the kilo was 2019 so yeah, we've just been chasing them.
"Usually, the longer the partnership can gel and learn from each other, usually gets the better times, the faster times but basically we're trying to match them in the first [500m], that's their absolute strongest part which we didn't have, so we worked on a long time on this and it's paid off today.
"It just makes everything worth it. I know everyone says that but the people, the staff people what we do, they want it just as much as we do, even though they're not competing and that's something special and I feel like British Cycling has got a lot in that department and so this is for anyone who has ever believed in us so, even my past pilots behind me, everyone really, we're always trying to win and do our best and I couldn't be happier."
Pilot Steffan Lloyd added: "Unbelievable really, and to do it with one of my best friends. We've been together two years now, we've done three world championships, we've been so close every single time and he's never given up, he always gives 100% and there's no-one else who deserves it more, honestly, and he's such a great guy, so I can't believe it, I'm so happy that I helped him to do this."