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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Sean Ingle

Hodgkinson and Kerr lead GB gold medal hopes in Olympic athletics team

Keely Hodgkinson celebrates winning the women's 800m final at the European Athletics Championships.
Keely Hodgkinson celebrates winning the women's 800m final at the European Athletics Championships. Photograph: Aleksandra Szmigiel/Reuters

Keely Hodgkinson, Molly Caudery and Josh Kerr will spearhead Britain’s track and field 64-strong squad for Paris after the team was named on Friday. There is also a place for 17-year-old star Phoebe Gill in the women’s 800m, while 2022 world 1500m champion Jake Wightman gets the final spot in the men’s 800m after he missed the trials through injury.

However CJ Ujah, whose positive drugs test caused GB to lose their 4x100m relay silver medal in Tokyo (he was later cleared of deliberately taking banned drugs), is not selected despite training with the relay squad in recent months and finishing third over 100m at the trials.

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