Dashing Blade Runner Oscar too slow for Olympics

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Britain’s Martin Rooney won the 400m A race in 45.44sec. Britain’s Olympic team have been set a target of 41 medals to finish eighth in the medal table at the Games next month by the government agency who fund their preparations.

Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius, of South Africa, runs the 400-metre race in Milan on Wednesday

UK Sport call it a ‘stretch target’ and expect only 35 to be won but it may not be much of a stretch if an independent survey by a neutral expert proves correct.

The latest projection by Luciano Barra, former chief executive of the IAAF,has Britain fourth with 18 golds, twice as many as in Athens, and 48 medals in all. His projections have proved remarkably accurate for the last two summer and two winter Olympic Games.