BLACKBURN Rovers have unveiled another international performer at their Brockhall training ground - Great Britain athlete Jason Lobo.

Lobo will use Rovers' training facilities over the winter as he prepares for a tilt at next year's Sydney Olympics.

The Blackburn 800m man, who ran in the World Championships in Seville in August, is currently resting after a busy season on the track.

But along with coach Arthur Almond he has devised a winter training schedule and will start putting it into effect at Brockhall in the next couple of weeks.

Lobo said: "I am in the process of putting a programme together of circuit training and weight training and I am quite certain the facilities they have got down there will be brilliant for maintaining that programme.

"It's something I have never really touched upon before. But it's just another way in which I can see myself improving if I can get a prolonged spell in the gym over the winter with facilities which are second to none.

"The Olympics next year is the big one and I have got to look at ways of finding an extra second on the time I ran this year.

"When you are talking about fine margins if you ask the majority of top 800m runners how they would find an extra second they would be scratching their heads because they are doing everything already.

"But I can do some extra things and being able to use the facilities at Blackburn is one of those things.

Lobo, a police officer based at Haslingden who runs for the Haringey club, will combine his gym work with clocking up the miles outside.

And as well as road running, he is also hoping to swap Whitton Park for the manicured training pitches at Brockhall.

"The grass provides a great surface for session work and so perhaps I'll be utilising the training pitches as well. You couldn't ask for a better place to go and train," he added.

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