The Athletes’ Council operates as a liaison body between the IPC, athletes and the wider Paralympic movement.
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A natural sprinter, Cox is not expected to last the pace in the road race and she might not make it to the start line after injuring her right hamstring when Britain won silver in the 4x100m relay on Thursday night.
The cyclist, who has also won five of her golds in the swimming pool, is just two short of the leading British paralympic gold medal victor Mike Kenny.
The defending champion bided her time before unleashing an unbeatable attack, finding herself several minutes clear inside the final 10km.
China have long since secured their place at the top of the medal table, and there was more history made by their athletes on Saturday.
“And okay, people keep talking about the fact Russian Federation aren’t here, but we’ve been making world record performances, we’ve been going quicker and faster than we did previously”.
“I may have read it wrong, it might have been part of the Olympic programme, when I’m part of the Paralympic one”.
The men’s wheelchair basketball squad added bronze with an 82-76 defeat of Turkey and sailors Alexandra Rickham and Niki Birrell took bronze in the two-person keelboat.
Britain’s wheelchair racer David Weir endured a miserable finale to his Paralympics career after a crash forced an early withdrawal from Sunday’s marathon race in Rio.
The 38-year-old, who was born without a functioning right-hand, finished 12th behind Hannah Barnes in the road race and third to Hayley Simmonds in the time trial at the national championships in June this year.
“It’s a great way to end the Games and ParalympicsGB just smashed it out of the water tonight”, said the Northern Irishwoman, who took her third gold in Rio. I came here to win gold and that’s what I want to do, but to lay on that court tonight and to know that I’m not going into two bronze medal matches is, honestly, the best moment of my life.
Ireland’s medal haul rose to 11 as Katie-George Dunlevy and pilot Eve McCrystal claimed silver in the women’s tandem event. “I never thought three and a half years ago I’d be competing in my first Paralympics in such a short time”.
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The Netherlands’ Melaica Tuinfort claimed the bronze medal with a 130kg lift.
