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ROGERS ALL SET FOR SWITCH

AS SHE goes into her second Paralympics at the age of 17, sprinter Julie Rogers says the experience of London 2012 will stand her in good stead after she competed there in the seated volleyball. The T42 athlete will compete in the 100m, in which she is ranked fifth in the world this year with her PB of 16.87 from June.

Rogers, a single-leg amputee, said: “I was thrown into an adult setting very quickly. I was training with them when I was 12. The next youngest was 10 years my senior. I couldn’t be a child.

I had to be an equal athlete and prove I deserved to be there. I couldn’t be a burden by being young.

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