The athletes are taking part in the Games opening ceremony in Paris on Wednesday night.
Para-archer Phoebe Paterson Pine, from Telford, is hoping to bring home another gold, after winning in Tokyo 2020
Athletes from across the West Midlands say they are feeling confident ahead of the start of the 2024 Paralympics in Paris. The opening ceremony will be focused on the Place de la Concorde, a major public square, at 19:00 BST on Wednesday, with events starting the following day. The athletes include Shropshire para-archer Phoebe Paterson Pine and Hereford javelin thrower Dan Pembroke. Also in Paris is former Olympic athlete and now coach, Joel Fearon.Great Britain is fielding 215 athletes in Paris across 19 sports, with 116 men and 99 women."I know people want to beat me, and that’s fine, I want to beat me too," she said.Although she aims to bring home another gold, she said even if she failed to win, she would always be a champion.
Pembroke won gold in Tokyo in the javelin, and this year was named men's captain for the GB athletics team, which he said was a "great honour"."It was phenomenal. I don’t want to say what I threw, but it was good," he said.After his Tokyo win, Pembroke brewed a beer called Tokyo Gold, and revealed he had already brewed a Paris Gold before he left for the city.
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