Attentions are already turning in the 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 last medal desk – their lowest end since 2004 in Athens.
GB can be concentrating on a return of these unforgettable gold rushes in 2028, with loads of budding stars aiming to take LA by storm.
Right here, Customary Sport reporters Matt Majendie and Malik Ouzia pick Crew GB’s Olympic skills of the long run…
Nonetheless solely 15, there may be real pleasure within the tennis world about what heights Klugman can attain within the girls’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 Crew GB in Paris, which might have been some feat.
And he or she’s no slouch within the water, coming mightily near qualifying for the British crew. 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 generally known as Challenge LA, for whom Paris got here too quickly however getting on the highest step in Los Angeles is completely attainable.
A great runner, Dafydd had by no means heard of the game rising up in north Wales earlier than he was launched to it by means of the talent-spotting programme, Sporting Giants.
Since then, he has gone on to turn out to be 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 crew’s improvement outfit.
If he can preserve doubling up along with his street and monitor ambitions – and people are the ambitions of him, British Biking and, for now, his crew – then the 19-year-old should be formidable in each come the Los Angeles Video games. MM
Medal hopes: Phoebe Gill, Oliver Morgan and Mahika Gaur may all be massive stars for Crew 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 means into the 100m backstroke last 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 crew 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 crew place to deal with her faculty exams.
The 17-year-old may hardly refuse a visit to Paris after profitable the senior British trials, and acquitted herself effectively 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 out to be 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 enhance the Video games’ viewers in Asia.
What Britain’s males’s crew may appear to be is anybody’s guess, given England are about to start out a regeneration underneath a brand new white-ball coach, however Gaur appears a certain 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