SHEFFIELD wheelchair basketball ace Jill Fox insists she won't be hanging up her Team GB vest any time soon as she bids to end 12 years of Paralympic hurt in Beijing.
The 38-year-old will compete in her fourth Paralympics in China but is yet to pick up a medal after finishing sixth in Atlanta and eighth twice in Sydney and Athens.
Britain face a tough challenge to qualify in the top four of Pool A, with reignin
g champions America, silver medallist's Australia and favourites Germany all on the agenda.
But Fox – who guided Team GB to bronze at the Paralympic World Cup in May – admitted she is relishing the challenge of spearheading Britain's new generation in the Far East.
"This is going to be my fourth games and because of that a lot of the younger players come to me to ask questions and it's great that I can help them out," she said. "I know what it is like and what they can expect so that knowledge can really help some of the younger ones.
"I have no plans of stopping yet – the Paralympics are the pinnacle of our sport and what I train for.
"It isn't a short tournament and it can be really tiring so we just have to keep ourselves focused.
"If you have a bad game it makes it all the more difficult to get yourself up for the next one so we have to make sure that doesn't happen."
Fox will be joined in the Far East by Sheffield Steelers teammate Joanne Harper – who will be making her Paralympic debut alongside teenager Helen Freeman.
Britain are yet to win a wheelchair basketball Paralympic medal since its introduction in 1960 but Fox believes Team GB's wait could finally come to an in Beijing.
"There is no way that I'll be being blasé about these Games," she added. "I'll still be anxious and nervous.
"But I am looking forward to the atmosphere – it will be electric there and I will thrive on it.
"I have found over the years to treat every game as a new game and I have got better and better at doing that – so I'm confident we can do it and have a great tournament."
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