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As Australia’s mens and womens wheelchair basketball teams arrive in Japan for Tokyo 2020, rollerhawks.com.au spoke with Tristan Knowles to discover the disrupted preparations of the last two years only adds fuel to the team’s fire to avenge their sixth place in Rio.

Wheelchair basketball careers tend to begin in the most peculiar of places and the hoops journey of Hannah Dodd is no different. 

Three Roller Hawks have booked their tickets to the Tokyo Paralympics, but a month of COVID circumventing awaits as case numbers both here and in Japan surge.

Round 4 of the National Wheelchair Basketball League (NWBL) has been cancelled due to increasing border restrictions and lockdowns across the country.

Luke Pople’s basketball resume is a full one. Beyond the five National Wheelchair Basketball League titles with the Roller Hawks, Pople has played overseas and represented Australia at two world championships including winning Gold at the 2014 Worlds in South Korea.