QUADRUPLE gold medal-winning Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson will provide the inspiration to sporting stars of tomorrow at a ceremony on Tuesday.
The Darlington Young Sportswinner of the Year award will be presented belatedly after the ceremony was postponed last month due to a power failure in the town.
Each of the monthly winners will gather at Orange, in Yarm Road, to find out who will receive the accolade.
Organisers Darlington Borough Council have announced that Ms Grey-Thompson, from Redcar, who took third place in the 2000 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards, will be in attendance.
The wheelchair athlete won gold in the 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m at the Sydney games last year.
Meanwhile, Ms Grey-Thompson has revealed she is to try her hand at broadcasting later this month, after being recruited to present two morning shows for BBC local radio.
She said: "I'm really looking forward to being a celebrity presenter.
''I've done a few bits of presenting on Five Live, which lasted about 11 minutes at the most, so I've never really done anything like this before. Really I'm more used to being the interviewee."
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