Dan Purvis may have been a late replacement for this weekend's World Cup in Stuttgart, Germany, but he insists that he is not there simply to make up the numbers.
The Scot, in for the injured Japanese Kohei Ochimura, finished last year as the world No.1 and has since gone on to help Great Britain win European team gold and Olympic team bronze in 2012.
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