Team GB star all-but confirms Olympics career is over after landing new job at BBC weeks before Paris 2024 begins [Video]

BIANCA COOK’s Olympics career is essentially over – as she starts work as a BBC TV pundit.

The Liverpool taekwondo star won bronze medals in the +67kg class in Rio in 2016 and Tokyo in 2021 and is a multiple world champion.

Yet she has had a difficult three-year Olympiad since coming home from Japan, battling for selection with newcomer Rebecca McGowan from Dumbarton.

Only one Brit can go in each weight class.

And the squad announcement is being made tomorrow in Birmingham less than a month before the Games start.

In May, Cook – formerly known as Bianca Walkden until she married fellow fighter Aaron Cook two years ago – represented the Isle of Man at the European Championships.

This was a desperate late attempt to try to reach the Games and show off her …