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The UK Athletics head coach, Christian Malcolm, has defended his team’s performance at the Tokyo Olympics after they failed to win a single gold medal for the first time since Atlanta in 1996.
Malcolm, who took over last year, admitted there had been some “up and downs” in Japan, as the team fell just short of an informal medal target of seven to nine. However, he insisted Britain’s crop of young athletes would put things right for Paris in 2024.
