No room for sentiment as friends become rivals

Hunter Bell predicts the days of sharing a room with training partner Keely Hodgkinson are probably numbered.

- ATHLETICS Georgia

The Paris 2024 1500m bronze medallist and Hodgkinson, who stormed to a first Olympic gold at those Games over 800m, were holding camp roommates for the World Championships in Tokyo - where, this time, they are up against each other over the shorter distance.

The British pair have a strong friendship and usually overlap in training only once every two weeks, but as the dynamic between them changes on the track, Hunter Bell admits cohabitating and competing will eventually feel strange.