Sam Oldham insists he bears no grudge over his controversial omission from the Rio Olympics as he prepares to make his long-awaited international return at this week's European Championships in Cluj.
The 24-year-old was forced to watch his team-mates' unprecedented medal haul from home having missed out on selection and subsequently failed with an appeal.
It was a further bitter blow for Oldham, who had returned from nine months out following a serious ankle injury at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, and impressed in the pre-Rio London Open.
But Oldham, who had been a part of the bronze-medal winning Great Britain team at London 2012, is determined to seize on the absence of a number of star names in Romania to remind the selectors of his ability.
Oldham, a regular room-mate of double Olympic gold medallist Max Whitlock, told Press Association Sport: "I found it surprisingly easy to watch the Olympics and to cheer on all the guys I'd grown up with.
"If anything, watching their success made me hungrier, and it made me think if Max can do it, why can't I?
"Of course I felt like I deserved to be there, but knowing I had done everything to make it possible made it sit with me quite well. Rio apart, last year was one of the best years I have had in a while."
Oldham won gold at the 2010 Youth Olympics in Singapore and also won four silver medals at European Championships between 2013 and 2015, but injuries have hampered his attempts to make a headline-grabbing breakthrough.
For GB men's head coach Eddie van Hoof, Oldham's reaction to being dropped for Rio says it all about an athlete whom he believes still has his best gymnastics days ahead of him.
Van Hoof said: "It would have been easy for Sam to have thrown the towel in after Rio, but he went away and committed himself to this new cycle which pleases me no end.
"Until now Sam has been a little bit erratic in terms of competition results, but this is his chance. If he can control his confidence levels, he is one of our best medal chances on the high bar."
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