IT WAS with a heavy heart that Cameron Brodie has had to turn his attentions to the Commonwealth Games in 2018 after seeing his Olympic dreams evaporate in Glasgow.

Heading into the 2016 British Swimming Championships with high hopes, Brodie could only finish fourth in the 200m butterfly behind surprise winner Adam Mallett, ending any hopes of making the British team in Rio this summer.

While he still has the 100m fly to come later in the week, the 24-year-old admits his chance of making the Olympic team disappeared as he came home in 1:58.98, two seconds outside his best.

However Brodie insists that his training base with the University of Stirling, where he trains alongside the likes of Commonwealth champions Ross Murdoch and Robbie Renwick, remains the equal of any in the world and is desperate to prove that in the future.

He said: “I’m incredibly disappointed. I don’t feel like that’s the best reflection of where I’m at. I tried my best. I was nowhere near where I thought I was.

“I gave it my all this season, I concentrated on the little things, nutrition, workload and if it’s not paid off now, I’m sure it will pay off at some point. But the time I really needed it to pay off was now.

“I’ve always wanted to keep going until 2018, that excites me to go to the next Commonwealth Games, so that one will be the next one for me unfortunately.

“The training regime in Stirling is as good as it gets worldwide. I was lucky enough at the start of the year to go out and train with the Florida Gators, one of the best teams in the world. 

“There are a lot of things they do out there a little better than we do, but we do a lot of things a lot better than they do out there. I feel I’m in the best facility and the best training group in the world. It just didn’t click here.”

Elsewhere in Glasgow, Craig McLean finished fourth in a time of 56.12 in the 100m backstroke Target Tokyo Final – a race designed to highlight potential stars for the 2020 Olympic Games.

And Natasha Hofton was 14th fastest in the heats of the women’s equivalent, which was eventually won by Georgia Davies, albeit just outside the qualifying time for Rio.

There was a similar problem for Chris Walker-Hebborn in the men’s equivalent as he failed to make the qualifying time on his way to victory, while veteran Liam Tancock came home second.

And finally, the 200m breaststroke provided the shock of the Championships so far as Chloe Tutton smashed the British record, beating previous holder Molly Renshaw along the way to give herself a chance of going to Rio.

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