Hannah Miley got Britain off to a successful start at the European Aquatics Championships with 400m individual medley silver, while 2013 European junior champion Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake reflects on becoming just the third Brit to run sub 20 seconds for the 200m. Here’s our review of the last 24 hours.
Hannah Miley only celebrated her 19th birthday on the eve of the Beijing Olympics. Eight years on and she can almost be considered a veteran.
The 26-year old claimed the ninth major international long course medal of her career with a 400m medley silver at the European Championships in London.
And it's a performance that was all the more impressive when you consider she has not reduced her famously demanding training schedule with Rio this summer her only real goal.
”It hard to be competitive when you are not 100 percent fresh, so I’m really delighted with that,” she said, after finishing just behind three-time world champion, Hungary’s Katinka Hosszú.
"I was worried my ego might get bashed around a bit, so it’s a big confidence boost to know that I’m the second best swimmer in Europe, even when I'm not really competition ready.”
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Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake is aiming to impress on British shores after coming within one-hundredth of a second of beating John Regis’ 23-year-old 200m record at the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Championships in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Representing Louisiana State University, the 22-year-old 2013 European junior champion clocked 19.95 seconds to become the third Brit – after Regis and Adam Gemili – to go sub 20 seconds.
It came after he had already won the 100m as well as anchoring his university to victory in the 4x100m.
His time puts him ahead of Adam Gemili (19.98) in the all-time British 200m rankings.
Chijindu Ujah and James Ellington have also already run under the 20.50-second Olympic A standard in 2016 and athletes with the qualifying time will race at the British Championships in June in order to earn a place on Team GB at Rio 2016.
"The 200 is my favourite event," Mitchell-Blake told BBC Sport.
"The Rio Olympics is definitely something I'm looking forward too. The NCAA championships is in the coming weeks and my first priority. Then I'll come back to the UK and try to compete for a spot on the team."
Pommel horse world champion Max Whitlock headlines a strong Great Britain team for the 2016 Artistic Gymnastics European Championships in Bern, Switzerland next week. The event is the last major championships for prospective Olympians to show what they can do before Rio 2016 this summer and runs from Wednesday May 25 to Sunday June 5.
“This is an important championship, particularly with Rio just eight weeks after, and a good opportunity to try some tactical options,” said men’s head national coach Eddie Van Hoof.
“We have a strong team with a good balance of experience and youth who are all highly motivated as they step up preparations for the Olympics.”
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Andy Murray’s former coach Miles Maclagan believes the British number one could not have asked for better preparations ahead of this year’s French Open.
Murray moved back up to two in the world after beating Novak Djokovic in Sunday’s Rome Masters final.
That came just seven days after losing to the same opponent seven days previously at the Madrid Open final.
Maclagan said: "This (Italian Open) was his first win over Novak on clay, so he has a deep reservoir of confidence.
"The other players will look at him as a challenger and that counts as well."
The French Open begins on 22 May and Murray reached the semi-finals last year, when the Scot was beaten by Djokovic over five sets. Elsewhere, Kyle Edmund was forced to retire with an ankle injury from his first round match against Alexander Zverev at the Nice Open while Heather Watson lost 6-3 0-6 6-1 to Kateryna Bondarenko at the Internationaux de Strasbourg.
Just 80 days remain until this summer’s Olympic Games in Rio, but there is still plenty keeping our Team GB athletes busy.
Whether that be attempting to qualify or fine-tuning preparations for those already selected, no-one is resting on their laurels.
Each Monday we will look back at what our athletes have been getting up to during the last week and who to keep an eye on over the coming seven days.
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