The Team GB hopefuls who could benefit from rescheduling of Tokyo Olympics

The re-scheduling to 2021 gives some the opportunity to transform from long-shot into realistic contender.

Published Mar 30, 2020

Last updated Mar 30, 2020

For some athletes approaching the tail-end of their careers, the announcement of the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will have come as a hammer-blow.

But others, for whom the Games looked set to arrive a little too early, the re-scheduling to July 23 and August 8 next year gives them the opportunity to transform from long-shot into realistic contender.

Here, the PA news agency picks out seven British athletes for whom the Tokyo 2020 Olympics can’t come a moment too late.