No room for sentiment as friends become rivals

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

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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 co-habitating and competing will eventually feel strange.