Axed Mills could turn to Team GB

Joanna Mills may defect to the Great Britain squad in protest at her exclusion from the Irish athletics team for the Olympics.

The 19-year-old Ballymena runner will miss out on a place at London 2012 after Catriona Cuddihy’s successful appeal to the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) against her de-selection from the 4x400m relay team.

Cuddihy had originally been named in the six-strong squad but an appeal by Mills, whose personal best is 0.70 seconds faster than her rival, was subsequently upheld by Athletics Ireland.