There’s just 365 days until the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris, and Australia’s athletes have already set their sights on gold.
Two years after Australia’s Paralympic team finished eighth in Tokyo with a total of 80 medals, it’s suddenly only 12 months away until Paris 2024 and the next chance for the country’s top paralympic athletes to strut their stuff. The countdown is well and truly on.
Edmondson was part of Australia’s wheelchair rugby team that won gold in 2016, and will be celebrating 10 years on the team in 2024. Experienced Paralympian Heath Davidson is hoping the competition in Paris will help him forge his own identity and deliver something that has so far eluded him – any medal in singles competition.
“At this stage it looks like I probably won’t be playing doubles over there because we don’t have a partner for me.
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