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UK Athletics have set the target of winning six to eight medals at the Olympics In the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, they claimed just five track and field medals
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UK Athletics have set a target of winning six to eight track and field medals at the Paris Olympics this summer.
If the team hit the lower end of that goal, which has been agreed with funding body UK Sport, it would represent a marginal upgrade on the 2021 Games in Tokyo, where the Brits claimed only five medals after being stripped of their men’s 4x100m bronze when CJ Ujah tested positive for drugs.
The estimate is broadly consistent with the team’s Olympic performances across the past three and a half decades - a period that includes the introduction of