Emma Pooley set to come out of retirement in bid to clinch Olympic gold while Carl Hester and Charlotte Dujardin make it a British one-two at Olympia. Here's our review of the last 24 hours.
Emma Pooley wants to seize a 'rare opportunity' after the Olympic silver medallist announced her intentions to come out of retirement and compete at Rio 2016.
The 33-year-old has plenty of Olympic pedigree having won silver in the time trial at Beijing 2008 and also took a world title in the event in 2010.
In 2011 she finished with World Championship bronze and decided to call time on her career after double silver in the time trial and road race at Glasgow 2014.
Since then she has been focussing on triathlon but has been tempted back to the road and has set her sights on Rio’s time trial as well as the chance to help world champion Lizzie Armitstead bid for gold in the road race.
"This is a truly rare opportunity that I can't resist," she said. "I've decided it's worth a serious attempt at targeting that event.
"If I can prove to both myself and the GB team selectors that I have the capacity to win the time trial in Rio, I'll compete for selection for the Olympic team - I'm happy knowing I won't get selected unless I really do have the potential to win.
"I have no desire to go to the Rio Games, and sacrifice some of the most exciting triathlon races of the season, just for the experience of another Olympics - I'm committed to aiming for gold."
It was results reversed on the second day of the London International Horse Show at Olympia as Olympic champion Carl Hester beat fellow London 2012 teammate Charlotte Dujardin to freestyle dressage gold.
Double Olympic champion Dujardin edged Hester into second in Tuesday’s dressage grand prix.
But Hester gained his revenge aboard Nip Tuck on Wednesday, executing a smooth new routine to score 83.750% and earn his first Olympia win.
The Netherlands’ Peter Minderhoud was third while fellow Briton Lara Griffith was fourth.
“I’m pretty ecstatic,” Hester told Horse and Hound. “It was hard enough for ‘Barney’ to go round the edge of this arena last year, let alone do the test, so it’s incredible what a year can do.
“The horse isn’t blessed with the best physical attributes, but has a very good brain, so I decided to put together what I thought were the most difficult things we could do.”
They might not have made the podium at this year’s World Rowing Championships but Jess Leyden believes it would be foolish to count out Britain’s women’s quad team in Rio 2016.
It was a far-from perfect performance in France from Leyden, Frances Houghton, Kristina Stiller and Melanie Wilson as they failed to reach the World Championship final earlier this year and missed out on Olympic qualification.
But there is still time for the 20-year-old to help the quad team reach Rio with preparations well underway for next season.
“I was in the women’s quad for the World Championships but we didn’t quite qualify our boat for the Olympics,” said Leyden.
“Now that’s over though we are all competing in our singles to get selection for the quad again and we will go to the final regatta and hopefully qualify the quad then.
“No one ever knows what the other countries are doing so all you can do is focus on getting yourself and your crew better and better.”
Andy Murray will continue to work with Amelie Mauresmo in 2016 although Jonas Bjorkman has been stood down.
Mauresmo gave birth to her first child in August but is aiming to work between 22 to 24 weeks with Murray next year.
The Brit, who intends to have a new assistant coach in place for the first Masters event of the year in Indian Wells in March, finished the year as world number two as well as helping Great Britain win the Davis Cup title.
"Amelie did come in at a difficult time, when I had just come back from back surgery, which was tough,” he said.
"When I started working with her officially I was ranked 11 in the world - I had just dropped out of the top 10 for the first time in eight years - and I'm now back up to number two, which is my highest ranking.
"For me there were a lot of positives last year.
"But the last step is the most important thing and we need to work hard together to get back to winning the Slams. I've just got to find the way to get the wins against the top players in the biggest matches again."
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