European and Commonwealth hurdles champion Andy Turner hopes the positive energy of the British crowd can inspire him to a place on the Olympic podium.
Turner is working his way back to full fitness from an Achilles problem which hampered his performance at the recent Aviva International in Glasgow and so will miss the upcoming World Indoor Championships.
The 31-year-old will soon head out for some intensive warm-weather training in the United States before fine tuning his preparations ahead of the Olympic trials.
Turner was awarded a bronze medal at the 2011 World Championships, having been promoted from fourth place following the disqualification of Cuban Dayron Robles, who was adjudged to have impeded China's Liu Xiang.
The Nottingham athlete will head out to Florida for seven weeks of "hard graft" alongside American hurdler David Oliver, Olympic bronze medalist in Beijing, as the Briton starts to narrow his focus ahead of London.
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