SPOKANE, Wash. - Over 300 table tennis athletes representing over 40 different countries have been competing in Spokane all week long.

One of the best para table tennis athletes in the world brought the heat to the Inland Northwest. Will Bayley is a seven-time paralympic medalist representing his home country of Great Britain. He's ranked World No. 1.

"I've always got a target on my back," Bayley said.

Bayley plays in Class 7 Men's singles. That classification is for athletes with severe impairment of their legs or their playing arm. Bayley suffers from a condition called arthrogryposis, which affects all of his limbs.

"It affects my muscles, and it affects my movement and my joints... it's kind of like an arthritis you could say. But I was born with it, so it doesn't get worse, and it

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