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Team GB in race to spring athletes out of Covid isolation
Empty seats at the Tokyo Olympics with competitions under way in archery and rowing before Friday night s opening ceremony.
British Olympic officials admit they are running out of time to bust Team GB athletes out of quarantine. Steeplechaser Zak Seddon, hurdler Jessie Knight and four other members of the track and field team were pinged after a close contact on their flight from London tested positive. However, team bosses were able to negotiate with local authorities at their training base in Yokohama, securing a dispensation that allowed them to train, provided they socially distance from team-mates and spend all other time in their rooms.
Tokyo Olympics 2020 medal table: how it works, 2021 predictions and Team GB s hopes
Are the United States likely to prove as dominant as ever and can Team GB possibly improve on their second place from Rio 2016?
24 July 2021 • 12:12am
Charlotte Dujardin won one of 27 Team GB gold medals at the Rio Olympics
Credit: JULIAN SIMMONDS
Team GB have set themselves the target of remaining at least in the top five of the Olympic medal table, but have suggested that this generation may peak in Paris in 2024 when more than two-thirds of the team are rated as medal prospects.
After record-breaking medal hauls in London and Rio de Janeiro, when Team GB were respectively third and second in the medals table, the youngest team for more than a decade will be competing in Tokyo following the departure from the main stage of serial winners like Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, Sir Bradley Wiggins, Dame Katherine Grainger, Alistair Brownlee and Sir Mo Farah.
Who are Team GB s athletes to watch
Team GB will be represented by its largest ever delegation for an Olympic Games on foreign soil, with 376 athletes and a further 22 reserve athletes set to compete across 26 sports at the Tokyo 2020 Games. It is second only to the 541 athletes selected for the London Olympics in 2012.
For the first time in its 125-year history, Team GB will also be taking more women than men to a summer Olympic Games.
Of the 376 athletes selected, Team GB is taking 201 female (53.5%) and 175 male athletes (46.5%) to Tokyo thanks to impressive qualification performances from British female athletes across sports and an increased number of female events at the Games.