Neil Gourley says he’s not going to the Olympics in Paris “simply to be a vacationer”.
The 29-year-old Scot’s 1500m win at June’s UK Athletics Championships made certain of his place in Group GB’s athletics squad for the Video games in France.
Gourley took silver over the space on the European Indoor Championships final yr.
“I am missing that main medal at a world championship and this is able to be a terrific yr to do it,” he informed BBC Radio Scotland’s Sportsound.
“I am undoubtedly trying to go to this Olympics not simply to be a vacationer.
“There’s ambitions there of medals and that is what we’re trying to do there.”
Compatriots Josh Kerr, 26, and Jake Wightman, 29, are the previous two world champions over 1500m and each be a part of Gourley within the British crew.
Wightman will run within the 800m within the French capital with Gourley, Kerr and George Mills taking the 1500m spots.
“It may be an unbelievable problem,” added Gourley.
“The extent is so excessive in the meanwhile on this planet however I have been making progress yr on yr.
“A few of my colleagues in Jake and Josh have proven that degree is achievable. I am aspiring to get to that and placing within the work simply now to make that occur.”
