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Luger Adam Rosen aims high for Winter Olympics in Sochi

Image: Adam Rosen: Confident he can beat the 16th place finish from Vancouver

With the London Games now feeling like a distant memory, for many other British athletes, their target for success is creeping ever closer.

Belief

Rosen now remains fully focused on an improved season in the World Cup, starting in Innsbruck later this month, and ultimately concluding in an Olympic-best performance at what could be his final Games in the Russian city. The luger, a qualified pilot in the US, who switched to represent the UK in 2006 due to his English mother, continued: "The one thing that is really driving me towards Sochi is the belief that I can really do well at these Olympics. "I'm really trying to push ahead and see what I can do with the proper training equipment. It does get very tough and if I didn't have this belief it would be easy to give up. But I have made too many sacrifices to do that now. "I dislocated my hip and tore four ligaments in October prior to Vancouver, and the doctor said I'd be lucky to be walking again by the time the Olympics came round, so although I didn't do as well as I hoped, to actually be there competing was an achievement. "For Sochi, I'm hoping that everything will be in place to give me the best possible opportunity to succeed. I don't think I would be happy with myself four years down the line if I didn't give it my all. I do not want to leave this sport with any regrets."

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