Phillips Idowu ready to take on world again in Moscow

Phillips Idowu has pledged to bounce back from his Olympic disappointment to be crowned world champion in Moscow next season.

The 33-year-old has endured a tough 2012 campaign with a neural problem, which effectively dashed his hopes of winning gold in front of a home crowd at the Games.

Short of competition in his legs, he managed a qualifying best of 16.53metres but it was not enough to make it into the Olympic final where he had hoped to go one better than the silver medal won in Beijing four years ago.

The Londoner has called time on his season to rectify the problem and admits he may yet need surgery in the ensuing weeks.

But he insisted he had every confidence that after one of the toughest seasons of an illustrious career, which included world, European and Commonwealth titles, he would bounce back as world No1.

The triple jump competition at the World Championships kicks off in exactly a year and two days time and, from the moment of his Olympic setback, it has become the long-term target.