GEORGIA HUNTER BELL predicts the days of sharing a room with training partner Keely Hodgkinson are probably numbered.

The Paris 2024 1,500m bronze medallist and Hodgkinson, who stormed to a first Olympic gold at those Games over 800m, were holding camp room-mates for the World Championships in Tokyo — where, this time, they are up against each other over the shorter distance.

The British pair have a strong friendship and usually overlap in training only once every two weeks, but as the dynamic between them changes on the track, Hunter Bell admits cohabitating and competing will eventually feel strange.

“I feel like that’s going to come in the future,” said Hunter Bell. “I think, at the moment, everything’s just good. We’re running well, we’re happy, we’re friends.

“It’s just a cool opportunity to be in and we see it as a positive rather than anything negative. No matter what race you’re in, when you stand on that start line you always have to believe you can win, and you know she will feel very much like that.”

Hodgkinson came back from a year-long injury absence to set a world-leading 1:54.74 in Silesia last month, while Hunter Bell has the third-fastest time, 1:55.96, behind Swiss European under-23 champion Audrey Werro.