By Ade Adepitan Paralympian and TV presenter

I feel absolutely relieved and delighted at making the wheelchair basketball team for Athens.

It's been a mad five or six months building up to the whole thing and I was a little worried about making the squad.

The team is so much better than it was four years ago.

Team GB has always been known for having very quick, good shooting guards Ade Adepitan Team named for Athens

Of course, we were a strong team then but, at the moment, we've got so many young players coming in and the new training methods we use has made people improve a lot quicker.

So we've got guys who have only been in the programme for two years and over a short period of time they've moved on in leaps and bounds and challenging me for my position.

That has forced me to step up my game more, although it's a lot easier to start pushing yourself when competition for places is so tight.

That fear motivates you to push yourself and do those extra miles and focus on your games even more.

One of things with Team GB is we've always been known in the world for having very quick, good shooting guards, especially in the 2.5 position.

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I know because it took me eight years to break into the squad. At Atlanta, I just missed the cut, because at the time we had Tony Woollard who plays in my position.

He's like 6'7'' and it's difficult to match that kind of height. Then there was Dan Johnson, who's one of the best guards that GB has ever had

However, we've always struggled to find big tall forward players because we're not a tall country.

It means we often have a tough time against teams with height, like Canada and USA.

One of the important names selected for Athens is Stuart Jellows. He's about 6'5" and gives us some valuable height in that position.

I think he's going to become an important cornerstone of the team

It's quite weird because this is only his second season of wheelchair basketball.

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He's minimal disability and was playing able-bodied basketball two years ago before he had a major accident, which damaged his ankle.

He thought he'd never be playing basketball again and two years later he's going to the Paralympics.

For Athens, I think we are good enough to get a gold medal but as with team sports you need a lot of things to go your way.

We'd really like to get a medal, especially after we missed out in Sydney which was heartbreaking.

We have a tough group in Athens; Italy are European champions, Canada are probably the best team in the world, France are potential dark horses, Brazil are the best up-and-coming new team, and Australia want revenge after we knocked them out of the World Championships semi-finals.

But I think it works well for us in two ways.

One is that we have to be at the top of our game straightaway. It's a lot easier to get yourself up for the big games than when you play the minnows, thrash them and get an unreal idea of how you're playing.

As we're starting off with tough matches, it won't be such a big step up.

Secondly it takes the pressure of us now because everyone's going to be looking at that group and expecting less from us.