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Brits eye larger medal haul

British Olympic chiefs are confident of a "significant improvement" in their medal haul at Beijing but have played down predictions they could overhaul Australia to finish as the fourth-best nation in Beijing.

Britain finished in 10th place in Athens with nine gold medals and are targeting fourth place in London 2012 - but the British Olympic Association are refusing to set a specific target for these Games.

"We do have a very strong team, better financed and better resourced than ever, and I believe this will deliver the goods and we will move significantly forward from 10th," said BOA chairman Colin Moynihan. "We are confident we will move forward but it would be unwise to speculate how close we will get to fourth."

He added: "At Athens, the combined margin of five British golds being silver medals was only 0.545sec - that shows how close it can be."

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