Australia has sent its largest para-archery team to the games in more than four decades as it looks to end a longstanding gold medal drought in the sport.
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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 is doing all they can to simulate the conditions they'll face at the Games,
00:39taking 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 perform, so I think we're
01:23at that point right now.