WORLD 400m hurdles champion Dai Greene remains confident of his Olympic gold medal prospects in London, despite another defeat to Javier Culson last night.

Greene again finished second in the Diamond League meeting in Crystal Palace behind the undefeated dominant 2012 world leader after an identical result in Paris last week.

On that occasion in France, Greene ran a personal best of 47.84secs, while clocking 48.10 last night in London with his Puerto Rican rival clocking 47.78 on both occasions.

But in the last week Greene has overcome a stuttering start to the season which had been affected by winter knee surgery and illness.

The Llanelli star, who was named Great Britain Olympic athletics team captain this week, remains adamant he will peak in London.

It was pretty good, but I would have loved to have got one over on Javier before the Olympics, said Greene.

But from where I was six weeks ago to where I am now I am still very happy.

I will work on some technical things over the next couple of weeks and there is a bit more to come.

I have more to give and feel as if I am on an upward curve.

I am getting faster every week and there are a few technical issues to iron out and I will get stronger as I do more training.

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Athletics: Dai Greene confident of Olympic success