We have been spoiled by Team GB’s recent success at the Olympics.

Long gone are the days of relying on the odd gold medal in rowing and praying for a miracle on the athletics track to give us a magical moment to savour.

Now, Team GB are the powerhouses of the Games and success over the past three Olympics has been built on having medal winners in at least 20 sports.

Here are ten that will fancy their chances in the French capital.

Katie Archibald: track cycling

No British woman has ever won three gold medals at the same Olympics. Only three men have ever achieved that feat in the 128-year history of the event.

Scotland’s Archibald is trying to do just that in Paris and add to the two golds and a silver she already has from Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.

"It has never presented itself as a simple goal, or an easy goal,” she admits, “but the success we’ve seen as a team has given me the confidence that I can do it.”

The 30-year-old is taking on the mantle from Dame Laura Kenny, Britain’s greatest female Olympian with five titles to her name, who announced her retirement in March.

Archibald regularly takes on the longest turns in the 2km team pursuit race and was crowned world champion in that event alongside three team-mates in Glasgow last year.

She will hope to defend the Madison title she won with Kenny in Tokyo and has all of the tools to succeed in the omnium, a four-discipline event that rewards the best all-round rider.

Michael Beckett: sailing

Consistency is the golden ticket in sailing, where the brutal nature of the ocean waves mean no two days are the same.

Pembrokeshire’s Beckett has come closer than most to mastering the vagaries of a sport in which Great Britain are the most successful nation in Olympic history.

The 29-year-old races in the ILCA 7, a small dinghy that he describes as an ‘absolute dinosaur’, with no modifications allowed to the 40 crafts that will take to the Olympic course.

“The ultimate test, the purest test in sailing,” says Beckett. “I wouldn't do anything else."

Beckett started sailing aged five, joined the British national squad in 2013 and has finally got his Olympic chance with sailing events set for Marseille Marina.

He has built a superb body of work in the last four years, winning silver and bronze at successive World Championships, reaching the podium at the Test Event and taking victory at the prestigious French Olympic Week regatta.

Aussie arch rival and reigning Olympic champion Matt Wearn may be the only man who can stop him winning gold on debut.

Matt Richards: swimming

We’ve never had it so good when it comes to swimming. Adam Peaty, Duncan Scott and James Guy have built a dynasty that has delivered an unprecedented run of Team GB success in the pool.

The next man in line is Richards, who was born near Worcester but represents Wales as well as GB on the international stage.

Aged five, Richards threw off his armbands and dived into the deep end of a hotel pool on a family holiday to Tenerife, setting the pattern for the rest of his life.

He reached the pinnacle of the sport while still a teenager, part of the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay team that won gold in Tokyo.

A year later, Richards’ young career totally stalled. Falling out of love with his intense training programme, he finished 30th at the World Championships.

“To go so far backwards was really tough,” he said. “I had to reinvent myself.”

Richards moved from Bath to be based at Millfield School; less than a year later, he was crowned world champion on the 200m freestyle.

The 21-year-old could win a hatful of medals in Paris. He has qualified in six separate events and could race a mammoth 15 times in nine days at La Defense Arena.

Beth Potter: triathlon

Beth Potter didn’t even own a bike seven years ago - now she is a world champion and aiming for a medal at Paris 2024.

The Glaswegian is one of the hottest properties in the swim, bike and run despite her main cycling background coming from rides to work while working as a physics teacher in London.

Potter, a national level junior swimmer, represented Team GB on the athletics track at Rio 2016 in the 10,000 metres.

She watched the Brownlee brothers win medals while sat on Copacabana beach drinking out of a coconut and a conversation with triathlon coaches in McDonalds at the Olympic Village lit the spark.

Potter now trains with and is coached by Alistair Brownlee, rising to win World Championship Series gold in 2023 and claim victory at the all-important Paris Test Event.

The fastest runner in the women’s field, Potter will be poised to strike for individual gold should the field remain bunched at the end of the bike leg. Her skills will be put to good use in the mixed relay, where Team GB are on a collision course with hosts France, and women will get the glory for the first time on the fourth, anchor leg.

Jake Jarman: gymnastics

The ultimate prize for a gymnast is having a move named after them.

‘The Jarman’ has already been christened, catapulting a 22-year-old from Peterborough into the highest echelons of his sport.

It is one of the hardest skills ever performed in men's gymnastics, requiring an incredible 3.5 twists in the air, first landed by its eponymous creator in late 2023.

Jarman’s Olympic journey began when a coach spotted him going wild in a local park where his grandmother routinely took him to shed energy before bedtime.

He was inspired to pursue the sport by Louis Smith, the first British man to win an Olympic medal in gymnastics, who also came through the ranks at Huntingdon Gymnastics Club.

Jarman broke through in 2022, winning four gold medals at the Commonwealth Games.

Heading into his first Olympics - he was named as a reserve for Tokyo 2020 - the 22-year-old is reigning world and European champion on vault.

While all eyes will be on Max Whitlock and his bid for a fourth title at his final Olympics, this CV makes Jarman a frontrunner for gold in Paris. He will also be a threat in the floor exercise and all-around competitions at the Bercy Arena, on the banks of the River Seine.

Zharnel Hughes: athletics

It's been a while since Team GB have had a genuine medal contender in the men’s 100m metres, the blue riband event at any Olympic Games.

That has all been changed by a softly-spoken Anguillan who spends his evenings playing Flight Simulator and tore the record books asunder in 2023.

Hughes came onto the radar in a big way last year by breaking long-standing British records in the 100m and 200m, lowering marks set by Linford Christie and John Regis respectively. He won 100m bronze at the World Championships, the first British man to do so since 2003.

But Hughes has been on the scene for nearly 10 years, only to be derailed by a serious knee injury around the Rio Games, making his current purple patch a reward for persistence rather than overnight success.

Hughes is based in Jamaica and coached by Glen Mills, who guided Usain Bolt throughout his career. Bolt has already tipped Hughes to emulate Christie and win 100m gold in Paris - it’s fair to say there are worse endorsements.

The Brit has none of the braggadocio of Bolt or Noah Lyles, the American who swept the sprints at last year’s Worlds and wants to do the same in Paris. A qualified pilot, Hughes will have no trouble with flying under the radar.

Charlotte Fry: equestrian

In the absence of Charlotte Dujardin, her namesake Charlotte Fry will look to take centre stage.

Fry, 28, contributed to team bronze on debut in Tokyo in 2021 but truly broke through a year later, becoming the youngest-ever rider to win double gold at the World Championships.

Since she was a teenager, Fry has been living in the Netherlands and working at the stable of five-time Danish Olympian Anne van Olst. She has a phenomenal string of horses at her command, including Glamourdale and Everdale, both of whom have won major titles.

Fry will be channelling the memory and inspiration of her late mother Laura, who competed for Great Britain at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.

Joe Clarke: canoeing

Canoe slalom is one of the most unpredictable sports at the Olympics. As the whitewater whistles by, one missed gate can be the difference between gold and stone dead last.

Enter Clarke, the favourite son of the surprise canoeing hotbed that is Staffordshire and Stone, returning to the Olympic stage after eight years away.

Clarke roared to victory in the K1 event on debut at Rio 2016, banked his MBE and Question of Sport appearance and was seemingly set fair for a period of dominance.

True to form, the sport didn’t play ball. Clarke missed out on selection altogether for Tokyo, losing out to Bradley Forbes-Cryans in an internal race for the single spot.

“Everything came crashing down,” he says. “It was tough to pick myself up after that.”

But that he did, powered by a new perspective after becoming a dad with son Hugo born in January 2023. Clarke won World Cup gold on Father’s Day that year and carried brilliant form through the season, crowned double World Champion in London in September.

The 31-year-old is the man to beat against the clock and a podium favourite in the new kayak cross discipline, a chaotic made-for-TV race where five boats crash down the course at the same time.

Bradly Sinden: taekwondo

Once every four years, Britain becomes transfixed by the unique Korean kicking sport of taekwondo, delivering a steady stream of medals and last-gasp heartbreak.

Who can forget the torment of Lutalo Muhammad and his screams of anguish after being denied gold in the final seconds at Rio 2016.

History repeated itself twice in Tokyo. Lauren Williams hasn’t qualified for Paris, so the revenge mission is left to steely Yorkshireman Sinden.

A hyperactive kid, Sinden’s single mum of four got him to try the sport to channel all of that excess energy. Now he is known as GB Taekwondo’s ‘Mr Consistent’ with an unerringly consistent record of winning medals at World Championships and Grand Prix events.

Sinden is part of a taekwondo power couple with Rebecca McGowan, who has disrupted the women’s heavyweight division with a rapid rise to the top in recent years.

Uzbek nemesis Ulugbek Rashitov is back to haunt him again but Sinden is a sure shot to challenge for the podium at his second Games.

Rose Harvey: marathon

The hilly course for the Paris Olympic marathon is a tribute to women as it is a reference to a key episode of the French Revolution: the women’s march on Versailles.

In a departure from convention, it will take place on the final day of the Games, with the men’s race typically bringing down the curtain.

We’ll be blunt: Rose Harvey has a very slim chance of winning a medal.

Top Ethiopian and Kenyan female runners are taking the iconic 26.2-mile discipline to new heights and challenging the world record.

Harvey is breaking barriers in her own way with a remarkable journey to become an Olympian.

She joined a running club in London just to meet people but started training seriously when, in lockdown, she was made redundant from her high-pressure job as a corporate lawyer.

With BBC presenter Sophie Raworth as a favourite training partner and cheerleader, Harvey clocked a time of 2 hours 23 minutes and 21 seconds at the 2023 Chicago Marathon to secure a sensational place at the Games. If that isn’t what the Olympics is all about, we don’t know what is.

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