BLAKE A FORCE IN HIS FOURTH

HE almost didn’t get a ticket to Tokyo but, despite being a late call-up, Blake Cochrane still plans to bring home a medal from his fourth Paralympics.

Cochrane, 30, has found his way to the podium at every Paralympics since Beijing.

He was competing at the Grand Prix event in Brisbane in July when he found out he had been granted an extra place in the Australian swimming team bound for Tokyo.

Cochrane will compete in the SB7 Men’s 100m breaststroke at 6pm on Wednesday.

There had been rumours he planned to hang up his green and gold togs after Tokyo but Cochrane said he had far from made up his mind. “With how I’ve been training over the last 18 months, and now that I’ve found the perfect work-life balance, I’m in a really positive place and am just taking it one competition at a time,” he said.