Stars from each ends of the expertise spectrum are amongst these boasting gold medal hopes for Nice Britain at subsequent year’s Paris Olympics.
With one year to go to the Video games, the PA information company picks out 5 of the possibly largest headline-grabbers.
Sky Brown
Aged simply 13 when she received skateboard bronze in Tokyo in 2021, Brown is again and searching higher than ever forward of Paris, having scooped X Video games and Dew Tour titles in 2022 and adopted them up by being topped girls’s park world champion in Sharjah in February.
Jessica Gadirova
The precociously gifted 18-year-old gymnast received world all-around gold in Liverpool final year and adopted it up by profitable this year’s European crown. Having been a part of GB’s beautiful bronze medal staff triumph in Tokyo, Gadirova is nicely outfitted to goal her sport’s final particular person prize.
Keely Hodgkinson
Silver linings are not sufficient for the 800-metre star who was pipped by American rival Athing Mu at each the Tokyo Olympics and the following World Championship. Gold at this year’s European Indoors in Istanbul could have whetted her urge for food to go one higher when her rivalry with Mu resumes within the French capital.
Carl Hester
After three straight Olympic medals in staff dressage – together with gold at London 2012 – 56-year-old Hester is concentrating on a fourth in what will likely be his ultimate Video games. Having missed final year’s staff world silver in Denmark due to an harm to his horse, Hester will likely be decided to go out on a excessive.
Tom Dean
Whereas Adam Peaty takes a well-deserved again seat, Dean has splashed into focus as he bids to higher his historic haul from Tokyo 2020, at which he grew to become the primary British swimmer to declare a couple of gold medal at a single Video games in 113 years.
