Aleia Hobbs Gets An Indefinite Suspension For Involving In A Dispute With At the European Athletics Championships in Rome, Keely Hodgkinson and Dina Asher-Smith shone as a number of Great Britain’s Olympic medal prospects carried on with their preparations for Paris 2024.
On a spectacular final night for the British squad, where 100-meter champion Asher-Smith won her second gold as part of the women’s 4×100-meter relay team, Hodgkinson, 22, held onto her 800-meter crown despite battling illness.
With a silver in the 200m, Daryll Neita came tantalizingly close to completing a British sprint double, and Molly Caudery kept up her thrilling improvement with a bronze in the pole vault at back-to-back major championships.
With four golds and thirteen medals won over the course of six days of competition, Britain took third position in the medal standings.
With seven weeks until the start of the athletics competition at the Paris Games, what can we infer about Team GB’s progress from their achievements in the Stadio Olimpico?
Asher-Smith and Hodgkinson will be two of Great Britain’s main medal contenders when the athletics season kicks out on August 1.
Hodgkinson, an Olympic and two-time world silver medallist, didn’t compete over the 800 meters until late May, but she made a grand entrance in Eugene, defeating world champion Mary Moraa with ease.
Her ability to maintain control over her most recent major final, even in the face of illness, will only boost her confidence before she faces off against Olympic champion Athing Mu and Moraa again for the global gold in one of the most anticipated matchups of the summer.
With the 100-meter gold medal marking her first individual international victory since 2019, Asher-Smith made a welcome comeback to the top of the international podium.
