14-year-old table tennis sensation Bly Twomey on making the Team GB Paralympics team

Published: Aug 19, 2024 Duration: 00:02:47 Category: Sports

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right we're counting down to the par Olympics which begins next Wednesday and 14-year-old table tennis sensation BL Tumi is a name to look out for Tumi who has cble py is targeting gold and revealed how she found out she'd made the par Olympics GB team uh so goraz R my mom but I was at school so I couldn't really know anything but my go WR my mom and then my mom went the school and then they bang me have lesson and they show me they like said oh yeah you've gone to P Olympics and I was really happy and really proud what was your reaction in that moment must to be the best feeling ever uh I was bouncing up and down and I was really happy you didn't have to go back to lessons after that did you I did but still with a smile on your face if you could give any advice to anyone younger than you looking at you as inspirational as you are and on what they want to achieve in their sport what would you say to them I would say just don't lie like if you have fears just face your fears and don't worry about anyone else even if someone's saying oh yeah you're bad it doesn't matter just play and hopefully you'll go to the par Olympics like golden Paris is the aim yeah uh yeah good luck to her now one of gb's strongest Sports at the par Olympics has always been cycling where all 20 members of the team in Tokyo won at least one medal kadina Cox won two of her four Golds there and also competed in the Athletics she stick into just one sport this time around but still has big Ambitions training's going it's going um I've had uh an injury so um happened four weeks ago so the last kind of week and a half um I've gotten back on my bike um and it's actually going fairly well considering I've done nothing not quite where I want to be personally but not in a bad place at all so I'm doing two events i' like two more medals obviously there's only one color that I want I always set out to you know breing my personal best my personal best also happens to be the world record so I guess that's me saying i' quite like a world record or two as well no pressure then uh so our par Olympics GB athletes will soon be joining their competitors from around the world in the par Olympic Village in Paris it's set to host 180 delegations and 4,400 athletes during the games the various delegation buildings are clearly set out for the teams including GB of course the village spans an area equivalent to 70 football pitch is and has been designed with as accessibility in mind of course with passs that ensure ease of movement for wheelchair users electric vehicles will also be available to transport athletes around the village [Music]

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