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jack shepherd will be favourite going into the event, he's the world number one.it'sjust when you've worked for it for over ten years now, it's just such a proud feeling to be going. it's

the paralympics get underway tomorrow in tokyo, and chesterfield's jack shepherd is favourite to win —year—old jack is the world number one, but he says his success is down to playing like the underdog. sally hurst has been talking to him at his training base in sheffield. when you work for it for over ten years now, it's just such a proud feeling to be going and it's like the dream's come true. whenjack shepherd first picked up a badminton racket at the age of ten, the sport was not even on the paralympic programme. but he fell in love with it instantly. it's just like the speed, the style of the shots, it were a sport, that is, when i was younger, at school, i could... because it was technique—based, i could play against average height people as well as people like myself, so it was quite inclusive and yeah, ijust really liked the sport. a major setback at 1a, when a corrective surgery on his legs took him out of the sport for nine months, only strengthened his resolve. i'd run up and down the sports hall, we'd do speed ladders, hurdles, just trying to lose some of the weight that i