A trio of athletes who train in Sheffield speak of their excitement to represent Great Britain.
Table tennis player Will Bayley said training at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield was 'a privilege'
The trio are among 215 athletes who will represent ParalympicsGB in the French capital over the next 11 days.Speaking to BBC Radio Sheffield, Bayley, from Kent, said: "I'm excited, I just can't wait to get out there.Bayley, who was born with arthrogryposis which affects the movement of all four limbs, is a veteran of the Paralympics and will look to add to his medal haul from previous years."It's amazing, some of the team weren't even born when I played my first game.
The 27-year-old now competes in the SS6 category for short stature athletes and won back-to-back World Championship Singles titles in 2017 and 2019. "To be able to bounce back over the last couple of years, I think it put a statement back out to the rest of the world to say the game hasn't crushed me and I'm still here."
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