Golly it's Holly

Bradshaw times it to perfection

Holly Bradshaw prepared for the Olympics by going to bed at tea time.

Every evening for 10 days before flying to Japan she would go to sleep an hour earlier than the previous one and move her alarm call forward by the same amount.

She called it “time shifting”, gradually adjusting her body clock to Tokyo’s eight-hour difference to ensure she lost not a moment of preparation to jetlag.

It was part of a masterplan and yesterday it paid a rich dividend as she took Olympic pole vault bronze – and gave a kiss of life to Britain’s ailing athletics team.