JOSH THE JOB

Kerr insists SPOTY snub has fuelled fire to claim Olympic gold

- ALEX SPINK

JOSH KERR has vowed to use his Sports Personality Of The Year snub as motivation to add Olympic gold to his world title.

Britain's 1500-metre world champion is the shock omission from the shortlist for next Tuesday's prestigious annual awards.

Britain's only track world champion in the biggest Olympic sport had been more than hopeful of a nomination - seven months before the Paris Games.

He had booked and paid for transatlantic flights from his US training base to be at the glittering ceremony in Salford.

But Katarina Johnson-Thompson (right), the one other British gold medallist in Budapest, was the only athlete to get the nod.