UK Sport targets record Olympic medal haul for Team GB

UK Sport targets record Olympic medal haul for Team GB

Target of 50-70 medals for Paris‘Confident we are on an upward trajectory’

Team GB’s athletes will be part of the “most sophisticated high-performance system in the world, bar none” at the Paris Olympics and could win a record-breaking tally of medals. That was the message from UK Sport and the British Olympic Association on Monday as they confirmed that Team GB would send 327 athletes in 24 sports to France. Notably, there will be significantly more women (174) than men (153) for the second Games in a row.

UK Sport has set a broad medal range of 50-70 medalsas it aims to be top-five in the medal table yet again. However, its director of performance, Kate Baker, predicted that if all went well, Britain could eclipse the record 67 medals won at the 2016 Rio Games.

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