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What an incredible Olympics for our modern pentathlon team. Heather Fell and I were excited from the moment we set foot in the athletes' village to the moment we left - and that moment came far too soon.

All five of our pentathlon events took place on one day, the last Friday of the Games, so we only had Saturday and Sunday to enjoy ourselves properly.

But the advantage of competing so late was that the more medals Team GB won, the less nervous I felt. It took the pressure off because suddenly nobody was looking to the final few events in desperation for medals.

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It's been a frantic seven days since I left the (relative) calm shores of the UK, flying out of Heathrow on the way to the .

First stop: Hong Kong

Here, some of the British team were fine-tuning their preparations. Over the next few days, my plan was to film interviews with the squads in HK and Macau.

When we landed, it was encouraging to find my wheelchair was still in one piece and promptly available. Paralympic signs were up, officials were organised (and helpful) - within 45 minutes of touching down I had my accreditation and my luggage, and was arriving at the hotel!

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We are finally in after acclimatising in Macau and we are on to the serious bit - the Games themselves.

My flight from London to Hong Kong was great. I upgraded to business class (or World Traveller Plus, as it is called now) and it was amazing.

I felt like a bit of a though as I had never flown business class before and was a bit out of place, but it was good.

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