With the IPC Athletics World Championships scheduled to start this Friday, Wikinews interviewed Spanish T12 classified long distance runner Elena Congost Mohedano at Madrid–Barajas Airport Monday before he departed for Lyon, France. Congost is scheduled to compete in  the T12 1500 meters.
((Wikinews))  Hello, I'm interviewing Elena Congost Mohedano who is a Spanish Paralympic athlete who won a silver in London and is going to Lyon to compete in the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships. Having won a medal in London are you going to get another one in this one?
((WN))  Which medal?
((WN))   Which event?
((WN))   So you're a long distance runner. And you don't train/run with a guide because you're, what, T-13?
((WN))   Ah. So you have a degenerative eye disease, so your vision is getting worse?  
((WN))    Do you expect it to get much worse over your continued history competing?
((WN))  Do you plan to stick since you've been competing since 2002, right...?
((WN))  Do you plan to continue running until 2020 if Madrid gets the Games?
((WN))  There's so few women competing for Spain. Is that an additional challenge as an athlete in this country?
((WN))  Why do you think there's so few women on the Spanish team? It's like 27 total Spanish competing, and there's like [three] women?
((WN))  Someone with a visual impairement, there's a lot of sports you could do?
((WN))   With so many sporting opportunities for people with vision impairments in Spain, why did you choose track and field?
((WN))  Is there any particular athlete you remember from when you were young being particularly inspiring?
((WN))   Spain has these really distinctive uniforms. The colors... Do people ever comment to you about them? Because in the US they were like, "your uniforms look like McDonald's!" 
((WN))   As somebody who's been competing for more than ten years, has there been a big change in the Paralympic movement from your perspective?
((WN))  Do you think that the increased competition has made you a better athlete?
((WN))   Thank you very much!

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Wikinews interviews Spanish Paralympic track and field athlete Elena Congost Mohedano