WILTSHIRE sprinter Danny Talbot believes he could not be in finer fettle as his Olympic dream turns into sharp focus this week.

Talbot and the rest of the Team GB athletics squad bound for Brazil will fly out for the biggest competition of their lives on Saturday.

The 200m man, from Trowbridge, has been getting quicker throughout 2016, with his season’s best of 20.37 seconds coming at the European Championships earlier this month, while Talbot ran just 0.01secs outside that in his final pre-Games race at the London Anniversary Games last Friday.

With the best sprinters on the planet to contend with, Talbot is almost certain to need to improve on that time if he is do make an impression in Rio and the 25-year-old is sure he can do just that.

“The way my training has been going and how I know I am capable of racing, I know there is a very fast time coming. I’m very confident I can run a fast time in Rio,” said Talbot.

“The fact I am getting faster with every race and getting a season’s best in every race going into Rio is a good indication that the training I am doing is working.

“All the training has been done and everything now is just about sharpening up. All the hard training is done, it’s about getting faster now.”

Although the opening ceremony is now just a week away, with the heats of the 200m not taking place until August 16, Talbot still has a while to wait before he can truly get into the Olympic spirit.

Before that he will take part in a training camp away from Rio with the rest of Britain’s best athletes and the former St Augustine’s pupil hopes that will get him even sharper on his quest for glory.

“We go to Belo Horizonte on July 30. That’s about three weeks before the first round of the 200m, so I guess I go into the Olympic Village about three days before my first race,” said Talbot.

“It’s quite nice actually. The European Championships was difficult as we all went on the Sunday night and we were there quite a long time before I raced.

“You don’t really want to go out and be on adventure in a foreign country because you have got to focus on racing, that’s the most important thing, that’s why you are there.

“It will be nice to be in Belo Horizonte and chill out there and get some good training in and just before the 200m, I will go into the athletes’ village and ready to go then.

“I am really looking forward to it now.”