Team GB chiefs have unveiled a secret weapon to help athletes win Olympic gold – sleep pods.
Eight of the special capsules will be installed in their HQ in the Paris suburb of Clichy to help Britain’s 350 athletes relax. Our top female weightlifter Emily Campbell, tried them out in London yesterday. She said: “I love sleep, especially when I am doing a double training session.
“The nap in between is crucial. It is a re-set. If I have a morning session, I will eat before I have a nap and wake up refreshed.”
Our Tokyo Olympic pentathlon champion Joe Choong, 28, said: “I am a sleep anywhere kind of guy. When you are doing five sports, you may be doing three or four training sessions a day. If you can sleep in between, it is the best way to recover.”
Around £250,000 has been spent on equipment on the gym for our athletes in Clichy.
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Weightlifter, Emily Campbell, 29, was a silver medallist in Tokyo (Andy Stenning/Daily Mirror)Team GB's chef de mission Mark England is confident of success this summer, saying last year: “This will feel like a home Games and I think we need to talk about it as being a home Games,” England said.
“We won’t have all the home advantages that the French team will have but we’re very, very confident in what we’ve got in place.
“I think (the athletes) will find it the most inspirational and exciting Games they have ever been in. There’ll be a smattering of London 2012 Olympians there, but this will be knock it out of the park spectacular for those in their first or second Games, which is the lion’s share of them.
“They are in Europe, in their own time zone give or take, and with an opportunity to move quite freely between Paris and the rest of Britain.”
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