The 22-year-old Yorkshire archer helped England's women to gold in the team compound competition at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. 

But the compound events are not on the schedule for the London Olympics, leaving Brown to concentrate on the Paralympics. 

"The World Championships in [Turin in] July are my main aim and I was going to do both the able-bodied and disabled competitions," said Brown, who won a gold medal at the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing.

"But with next year in mind, I am just doing the disabled champs.

"I still want to do some able-bodied competitions but since I can only enter the Paralympics, I need to think about the bigger picture.

"If I had done both, not only are they back to back and I would have been away for ages but they are also at completely different distances and I felt it was better to concentrate on the disabled event.

"I am more than happy to be doing the Paralympics and at the end of the day I want to be involved in London 2012 whichever way I can.

"I can't think of anything better than being a part of a Paralympics in front of your home crowd and I hope they can cheer me on to gold."

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