David Smith 長，率いるs nine-strong ParalympicsGB boccia team bound for Tokyo
統治するing Paralympic and world 支持する／優勝者 David Smith has been 指名するd in ParalympicsGB’s boccia squad for this summer’s 繰り延べるd Tokyo 2020.
Smith, 32, Britain’s most decorated boccia player と一緒に the retired Nigel Murray, 長，率いるs a nine-strong team and will be 目的（とする）ing to 追加する to his 運ぶ／漁獲高 of four メダルs from across three Games.
“I’m not thinking too much about the 共同の 記録，記録的な／記録する,” Smith said. “I’m more 利益／興味d in playing 井戸／弁護士席 and winning. I could より勝る the 共同の 記録，記録的な／記録する by winning a bronze, but my 焦点（を合わせる） is on the gold.
“It’s crazy to think that this will be my fourth Games and I’m still only 32. That’s exciting because there’s still a lot more to come.”
Smith will be joined by six returning Paralympians ? Claire Taggart, brothers Jamie and Scott McCowan, Evie Edwards and Stephen McGuire.
The squad’s youngest member, Louis Saunders, 19, Beth Moulam and Will Hipwell are 始める，決める to make their Paralympics debut in Tokyo.
David Smith 長，率いるs up ParalympicsGB´s nine-strong boccia team for Tokyo 2020 (Olympic handout)
Saunders said: “It was lovely to 株 the news with my family who have been so supportive.
“They even let me turn the lounge into a 小型の boccia 法廷，裁判所 during lockdown. They can’t wait to support me and the team from home this summer.”
ParalympicsGB chef de 使節団 Penny Briscoe 追加するd: “All nine 競技者s have shown terrific strength and 解決する since the start of the COVID pandemic last year and I look 今後 to seeing just what they can 達成する on the boccia 法廷，裁判所 at Tokyo 2020 this summer.”
Boccia, a precision ball sport relate d to bowls and petanque and very 類似の to curling, became a Paralympic sport in 1984 and 含むs individual, pairs and team matches.
A total of around 230 競技者s from 19 sports are 推定する／予想するd to compete for ParalympicsGB in Tokyo from August 24 to September 5.
