ATHLETICS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Venue: Olympic Stadium, Berlin Date: 15-23 August Coverage: Watch the action live and highlights on BBC Two, BBC HD, Red Button, Radio 5 live and the BBC Sport website (video for UK users only) Full BBC coverage details
Greene & Williams target Worlds
Rhys Williams says his 400m hurdling rivalry with fellow Welshman David Greene can inspire him at the World Championships in Berlin.
"David's faster than me this year, credit where credit's due," Williams told the Sport Wales TV show. "But I'm all about winning, not coming second."
The heats begin on Saturday with the semis Sunday and the final on Tuesday.
"We complement each other's styles, [Rhys] is the best person I've ever trained with," Greene told Sport Wales.
"We're completely different in how we run, Rhys is more of an endurance athlete and I'd say I have more speed to offer."
Swansea's Greene, 23, has had a remarkable breakthrough season since running 48.62 seconds in Prague in early June.
A foot tendon injury had hampered his progress over the previous 18 months and he has shuttled between different coaches, but now he believes that a realistic goal in Germany should be a place in the final.
"I know the guys who are running slightly faster than me and know that - on the day - they can be beaten.
"I've beaten some of them and I've got close to others.
"I've got to put in a real good performance when I get to the semi-finals to be able to beat the guys on the fringe of the final and take their spot from them."
I'm not about coming second. I want to be the best
Rhys Williams
Williams' ambitions are even higher, despite only winning his place at the championships at the selectors' discretion when he failed to make the qualifying time.
"I'm relieved to be chosen and to get a second chance to prove myself," said the 25-year-old Cardiffian, who spent the last two years sidelined by injury.
"[I was chosen because] I've won European medals, [other athletes] haven't.
"I've been training really well but haven't delivered in races, I feel there's a lot more to come."
Williams said he has been given extra motivation having worked in a call centre when his funding was cut.
"I've used it as a positive," said Williams, the son of former Wales and Lions rugby great JJ Williams.
"It gave me a lot of drive, I'm desperate to be a top athlete.
"I'm a very, very, very bad loser. I'm all about winning.
"I love rivalry and my compliments to David.
"But I'm not about coming second. I want to be the best.
"I'm not performing as a champion at the moment, but I'm going to work my socks off for the next few years."
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