Australia’s para-archery team looks to end gold medal drought in 2024
Australia's para-archery team is ready for the Paralympics in Paris. Six athletes have made their way to the French capital. It's the nation's largest Paralympic games archery team in four decades. Australia is looking to end a longstanding gold medal drought. The nation's last in the sport was back in 1968.
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00:00Gold is the target for Australia's para-archers.
00:08Spearheading Australia's largest para-archery team in 40 years, Rio 2016 bronze medallist
00:14Jonathan Milne will be competing at his third Para Games, alongside rising star Patrick
00:19French who is set to make his debut after picking up the sport just two years ago.
00:24I brought a bow just to muck around with in the backyard and naively looked up all the
00:31records and thought I could do that.
00:35The duo was doing all they can to simulate the conditions they'll face at the Games,
00:40taking part in mock competition and bringing in spectators to emulate crowd noise.
00:45No stranger to the rigours of Olympic competition, Milne is not letting the magnitude of the
00:49occasion get to him.
00:50I try and look at it as the same as any other day at training, it's the same equipment,
00:54same distance, same competitors, so I know if I go out there and do what I need to do,
01:00it's generally enough to get the win.
01:02Australia has won three gold medals in archery at the Paralympics, one in 1960 and two in
01:071968.
01:08Milne's bronze in 2016 remains Australia's only podium in four decades.
01:13I've tried to leave no stone unturned and try to prepare the guys as much as possible,
01:19but there comes a time in which you just need to go out there and just perform, so
01:23I think we're at that point right now.