No concerns for Woodward despite mixed Daegu return from athletes

Team GB achieved their target of seven medals in Daegu last week but there were as many failures as successes, with Jessica Ennis, Phillips Idowu and Mo Farah all forced to settle for silver in agonising circumstances.

Farah put his 10,000 metres disappointment behind him to win 5,000m gold, while Dai Greene also added another 400m hurdles title to his collection.

British Olympics Association elite performance director Woodward was more than satisfied with that state of affairs with less than a year to go until London 2012.

“I thought it was a great event for the British team,” said Woodward. “The two gold medals, we probably weren’t expected to win, and the two we probably were expected to, we didn’t – that’s sport.

“It’s also 12 months out and 12 months is a huge amount of time.

“A lot can happen in 12 months.

“There’s a lot to get stuck into a few people about.

“There were some people who overperformed, some people underperformed.

“The Olympics is the Olympics and the athletics is still the blue-riband event. We’ve got a genuinely good team, who I think are going to represent the team well and the country well.”