Paralympic Preview with Fliss Pickard | Inside Camp | Table Tennis England

Published: Aug 19, 2024 Duration: 00:03:33 Category: Sports

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F thank you for taking the time to talk to us um par Olympics coming up and it's a special one for you it's your first par Olympics how does that feel yeah I'm incredibly excited to get out there with the rest of the team and um ready to get out there in Paris and represent parp piics JP awesome and so can you tell us a bit about how preparation's been going in the leadup uh for Paris yeah preparations have been going great um I feel like I'm really peing at the right time and um everything the all the hard work is paying off on I feeli I'm feeling in a really good place and I'm enjoying it which is the most important thing I mean this environment especially on Camp weeks when you got all the athletes together is an amazing atmosphere and really high energy and we really support each other and really push each other to be the best we can and at the same time we have fun so what more can you ask what experience are you going to draw on from perhaps previous big games that you've played in perhaps at World Championships European champion ships that can help sort of spur you on in Paris yeah I think I've personally had a massive Journey um learning a lot about myself and along the way I've played Commonwealth Games and European G European championships in front of the home crowd so I can really learn from that experience and really drawn it in the biggest moments especially when you've got that atmosphere out in Paris and yeah uh massive support and I can't wait it's been unbelievable working with BL and she really brings a great energy and yeah she's really taught me a lot and she's pushing me on every day she doesn't realize she's doing it but yeah it's been incredible so we learn from each other I hope I can keep her calm and bring the best out of her but she also brings the fun and brings the atmosphere to the game and yeah we have a great time together and what do you guys think that well two questions really what do you hope that you guys can achieve together and what do you feel that you could perhaps achieve in the singles competition I think together me and B are very dangerous for any PA in the world and I think we can achieve anything we believe we can achieve and on our day we can beat anyone but we're going to take it one step at a time and obviously it's our first games and I think we're both incredibly excited for me personally in the singles I put a lot of hard work hard graft it's been a long journey but I just can't wait until out there and show the real F pick hard and I believe I'm capable of doing great things but again it's one step at a time one match at a time even one point at a time and tell you just don't know what's going to happen next so yeah I'll take everything in the St are you bringing any support network out there friends family loved ones are they coming for me I've got the closest family to me coming out which is what I choose and um yeah I mean a lot i' be very special for them to see me compete at the biggest stage of them all but I know I'm going to have huge support from even like Brighton tails at his Club I think they're bringing like 120 people so yeah it' be good and they obviously a great atmosphere and sort of the last question is if you could go back to sort of a young FL who's just starting table tennis saying you're going to go to the par Olympics you're going to be a world champion one day what would she say h i don't think she'd quite believe it I've always been hungry and always been really passionate about what I want to achieve and the goals I've achieved but if You' send the Poli pick card the young police pick card I wouldn't be able to sit here today and be one week away from going to par Olympic games so I can be unbelievably Pro [Applause]

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