Paralympics

Ade Adepitan on Britain’s prospects at the Tokyo Games

-  RICHARD MCCLURE, IAN MACEWAN

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Paralympics

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Hard on the heels of Team GB’s impressive performance at the Tokyo Olympics, the baton passes to our Paralympic stars as their Games get underway in Japan this week.

Ade Adepitan, who won wheelchair basketball bronze in Athens in 2004, will be in Tokyo as part of the C4 team covering the Games. Here, the 48-yearold presenter selects seven British athletes to watch out for…

ELLIE SIMMONDS

Swimming

Women’s S6, SB6 and SM6 ‘Ellie is another one of those legends, isn’t she? She started at Beijing when she was just 13 years old, and won two medals. It is going to be hard for Ellie, because she’s coming towards the end of her career. She’s defending her 200m medley title, and that’s the one she’ll really be going for. Ellie Robinson’s going in that as well, so it will be tough.’

DAME SARAH STOREY