Lord Sebastian Coe has suggested that the Great Britain Olympic team will not take a football side to the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil.
GB entered a team in the 2012 London Games in England which consisted of players from just England and Wales after Scotland and Northern Ireland opted against making their natives unavailable.
Coe was at the Securing Sport conference in London when he was asked if GB would be fielding a team at Rio 2016 but his response was not very positive, indicating that it may be too difficult to do so.
"It's just in the 'hard' basket. Possibly a women's team but I would rather assume that, operationally, that's not going to happen in terms of the men's team," the Chairman of the British Olympic Association said.
"Possibly with (the) women's (team), we've still got some discussions.
"But certainly, the men's team, I'm not sure I have the will to live through that process again."
At the London 2012 Games, the Stuart Pearce-coached GB bowed at the quarter-finals after losing to South Korea on penalties.
