Australia's para-archery team is the largest in more than 40 years

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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.

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