Gb Olympic Team Not On Wales' Radar - Mooney

Wales shot main executive Noel Mooney says being portion of Team GB sides astatine nan 2028 Los Angeles Olympics is "not connected our radar astatine all".

The British Olympic Association (BOA) said aft nan Paris Games 12 months agone they wanted a Great Britain men's shot squad competing astatine LA for nan first clip since London 2012.

Current Wales head Craig Bellamy was among 5 Welshmen successful Stuart Pearce's squad who competed connected location soil, pinch Britain ending a 52-year hold to play successful an Olympic men's shot tournament.

A GB women's squad past featured astatine nan Olympics astatine Tokyo 2020 erstwhile then-Wales skipper Sophie Ingle was portion of a 22-strong squad.

Andy Anson, nan erstwhile BOA main executive who stepped down from his domiciled successful July, said aft Paris that nan organisation would scheme talks pinch nan shot associations of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to recreate a Team GB men's shot broadside for nan LA Olympics.

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, however, person agelong felt that their independency successful Fifa and Uefa could beryllium jeopardised if they competed arsenic a azygous entity successful nan Olympics.

"The Olympics is not connected our radar astatine all, not astatine immoderate level," Football Association of Wales main executive Mooney told nan PA news agency.

"I've not heard a azygous connection astir it and ne'er discussed it pinch anybody.

"We want to attraction connected Cymru and what we do."

As good arsenic nan BOA facing imaginable guidance from nan location associations, clubs could reason their players being released to play Olympic shot during an progressively congested calendar.

The LA Olympics officially return spot from July 14-30, 2028, though nan shot competitions really commencement 2 days earlier nan opening ceremony.

The Games will statesman wrong days of nan conclusion of Euro 2028 - a tourney co-hosted by England, Scotland, Wales and nan Republic of Ireland - and a fewer weeks earlier nan caller home season.

Mooney said: "That [the Olympics] is personification else's activity I guess, but our occupation is to make judge we correspond ourselves successful nan correct way.

"On and disconnected nan pitch, we make judge we correspond Cymru nan correct way. That's our complete focus."