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Attentions are already turning in direction of the following Olympics in Los Angeles after an exhilarating finale to a memorable Video games in Paris.
Nevertheless, a comparative scarcity of golds meant that Nice Britain may solely place seventh within the remaining medal desk – their lowest end since 2004 in Athens.
GB might be focusing on a return of these unforgettable gold rushes in 2028, with loads of budding stars aiming to take LA by storm.
Right here, Normal Sport reporters Matt Majendie and Malik Ouzia select Group GB’s Olympic skills of the longer term…
Nonetheless solely 15, there may be real pleasure within the tennis world about what heights Klugman can attain within the ladies’s recreation.
Aged simply 14, she gained the Orange Bowl in the US, a prestigious match for under-18s.
She was additionally the youngest particular person – aged 14 on the time and beating Coco Gauff within the course of – to qualify for an ITF Girls’s World Tennis Tour occasion. She went on to succeed in the quarter-finals of the occasion in Shrewsbury. MM
However the teenager had set out on the novel quest to double up at each the skateboarding and browsing for Group GB in Paris, which might have been some feat.
And she or he’s no slouch within the water, coming mightily near qualifying for the British group. In 4 years’ time, in additional acquainted waters in Los Angeles, she may shine. MM
Inside British Rowing, there are a gaggle of up-and-coming rowers often called Challenge LA, for whom Paris got here too quickly however getting on the highest step in Los Angeles is completely attainable.
A superb runner, Dafydd had by no means heard of the game rising up in north Wales earlier than he was launched to it via the talent-spotting programme, Sporting Giants.
Since then, he has gone on to turn into an actual expertise and one of many rowers the GB hierarchy are most enthusiastic about. MM
A monitor biking star, he broke the junior world document for the person pursuit, and his exploits haven’t gone unnoticed, snapped up by the star-studded Jumbo-Visma group’s growth outfit.
If he can hold doubling up along with his street and monitor ambitions – and people are the ambitions of him, British Biking and, for now, his group – then the 19-year-old must be formidable in each come the Los Angeles Video games. MM
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Medal hopes: Phoebe Gill, Oliver Morgan and Mahika Gaur may all be huge stars for Group GB at LA 2028
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The backstroker is a late bloomer in swimming, having solely began competing nationally on the age of 16.
Regardless of that, he compelled his method into the 100m backstroke remaining in Paris simply 5 years on from that time and just lately broke Liam Tancock’s British document, which had stood for 15 years.
In Paris, he made it to the ultimate of the 100m backstroke and was additionally a part of the GB medley relay group who had been edged out of a medal in fourth. MM
These Olympics got here round forward of schedule for Gill, who turned down a European Championships group place to concentrate on her college exams.
The 17-year-old may hardly refuse a visit to Paris after successful the senior British trials, and acquitted herself properly in operating 1min 58secs in each the heats and semi-finals of the ladies’s 800m.
She is already the quickest U18 in European historical past and can nonetheless be simply 21 by the point LA comes round, although doubtlessly with the expertise of two World Championships. MO
Louie Hinchliffe (athletics)
Together with Gill, Hinchliffe has been the breakthrough star of the season for British athletics and have become the primary European man to win the 100m NCAA title within the US.
Coached by Video games nice Carl Lewis, the 22-year-old reached the semi-finals of the identical occasion in Paris, beating eventual winner Noah Lyles in his warmth, earlier than simply lacking out on a fastest-loser spot for the ultimate, regardless of operating 9.97secs. The Yorkshireman is poised to turn into Britain’s main dash hope. MO
Cricket will return to the Olympic programme for the primary time in 128 years in Los Angeles, a transfer the IOC hope will assist increase the Video games’ viewers in Asia.
What Britain’s males’s group may appear like is anybody’s guess, given England are about to begin a regeneration beneath a brand new white-ball coach, however Gaur appears a positive guess to be a part of the ladies’s set-up.
The 18-year-old seamer made her England debut final 12 months and is taken into account a singular expertise. MO
