Olympic & Paralympic Games Paris 2024: One year countdown has begun

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A year out until the next Olympic Games with Olympians and Paralympian’s gearing up for more success on the world stage.   Wesat down with an array of both sets of athletes to discuss their most memorable Olympic moment and look ahead to next years Games.

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00:00 With the year countdown beginning for Paris 2024, there are more new stories emerging every day.

00:08 Paris will allow people to swim in the Sien following the Olympics for the first time in more than 100 years.

00:15 One of Team GB's most decorative divers, Tom Daly, will make a return to the sport after a two-year break

00:22 following a plea from his five-year-old son, who said he wants to see his dad dive at the Olympics.

00:27 Local TV sports sat down with Olympians and Paralympians to look back on their most memorable games

00:33 and look ahead to Paris 2024.

00:37 It's one of the best experiences of my life, in my playing career, absolutely,

00:41 because to be surrounded among so many unbelievable athletes across sports as well

00:48 is not something any athlete gets to do, or any person, on a day-to-day basis.

00:53 Being a host, Olympics, for the very first time in our history as a sport, was incredible.

01:01 And the kind of audiences that we actually got for some of our games, playing at Wembley, was just fantastic.

01:09 I can't even describe the emotions, the atmosphere, you know, was incredible.

01:15 I'm pretty excited for Paris. I'm not too sure what I'm going to race there yet,

01:20 but I'm not also super bothered about it.

01:23 I'm just excited to hopefully be able to make the team and have that opportunity.

01:28 I am excited to kind of start training again in September.

01:32 Obviously, this year is a bit different because I'm kicking it off with a channel swim,

01:37 which I've not done before, obviously.

01:40 So my kind of aerobic base will probably be a bit better than it normally is at the start of the season

01:45 because of that and the training going into it.

01:47 So I'm excited to see how the season starts for Paris and then just, yeah, just go with the flow and see where it takes me.

01:54 Yeah, so I took last year out and I needed some time away,

01:59 but I've come back now and I really have my sights set on 2024.

02:05 The way that the team performed last year at the World Championships,

02:09 throughout the World Cup Series and Europeans was just fantastic.

02:13 I think they topped the medal table, lots of medals and really good positivity.

02:20 So I think the team are in a really, really good place and I can only really see that getting better.

02:26 So, yeah, I think we're in a positive place and the training is going well

02:31 and we just need to see where things are this summer because this is qualification.

02:36 We need to get as many boats qualified as we can and then win the medals.

02:42 And then the following year, we need to qualify ourselves to get our bums on those seats.

02:46 With some of the athletes we spoke to gearing up to take on Paris next year

02:51 and others firmly now looking towards being a spectator and spurring on the next generation of athletes.

02:58 With their support and guidance, it's sure to be another special Games for Great Britain.

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