Olympics-Tokyo success about more than medals, say British officials

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Hockey Training - Oi Hockey Stadium, Tokyo, Japan - July 22, 2021 Britain players during training REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

TOKYO (Reuters) - Having sat proudly on the medal table podium as a real sporting superpower at the last two Games, British success will be measured by a different metric in Tokyo, the country's leading Olympic and sporting officials said on Friday.

From the low of 1996 when they managed only one gold and finished 36th in the rankings, Britain rose to finish third in the London Games medal table of 2012 on the back of a huge injection of lottery funding.