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Ben Ransom gets a behind-the-scenes look at the facilities that the British Olympic Association hope will be the launch-pad to another record-breaking medal haul. Be prepared or prepare to fail.Its an old cliché but its one that Team GB are living by as they get ready for Rio 2016. The plans are certainly impressive, with the British Olympic Association (BOA) putting more money than ever before into the preparation for an overseas Games. £1.6m of lottery funding has been set aside by UK Sport to fund the biggest pre-Games training camp a British team has ever had. In fact they believe its the biggest and most extensive training camp of any of the other nations competing in Rio. Lofty ambitions indeed.Two weeks before the opening ceremony, British athletes will begin boarding flights to Brazil, but having landed at the host city of Rio de Janeiro theyll jump straight onto another plane and fly 45 minutes north into the mountains. Belo Horizonte is a city that conjures up painful sporting memories for those who follow England, and in particular English football. Not only was it the scene of one of their most humiliating ever World Cup results in 1950 when they were beaten by a team of amateurs from the USA, the return 64 years later saw Roy Hodgsons England crash out of the 2014 competition after a lacklustre goalless draw with Costa Rica.Thankfully its a unified British team that will be touching down later this summer and when they arrive theyll be greeted by the best training facilities found anywhere in Brazil. The athletics track has the exact same surface as the Olympic Stadium in Rio, while Belo Horizonte is also home to Brazils only other indoor 50-metre swimming pool to meet international standards. Team GB will have access to a 50-metre swimming pool, one of only two pools to meet the international standard in Brazil Each and every competing sport will enjoy a similar level of meticulous preparation, with a fleet of shipping containers crossing the Atlantic right now bringing with them everything from canoe slalom start gates to full-size Olympic boxing rings. Even the hotel rooms here will get the Team GB treatment to make sure athletes feel right at home - with patriotic posters and Union Flag cushions on the sofas.Paul Ford is the Head of pre-Games training and explained to Sky Sports News HQ why theyre going to all of the trouble.Technical training is the first most important thing and after that were then looking at how we can best acclimatise, Ford said.Were only 45 minutes flight away from Rio so its got exactly the same climate, which allows the athletes to go through the process of that four-hour time zone shift and get used to being inside Brazil before they go into the village and do their competition.The other key part of it is bringing together Team GB because they might come here as British Judo or the British fencing team, but they leave here as part of Team GB ready to take on the world. The running track Team GBs athletes will train on at Belo Horizonte will be the exact same surface found at the Olympic Stadium in Rio In 2010 the BOA wouldve been forgiven for putting everything into making sure London 2012 lived up to all the hype. However, in addition to focusing on their own backyard, a delegation was also more than 5,000 miles away visiting the training venues here in Belo Horizonte. To put it into some perspective, recent media reports in Brazil questioned why the home nation had not secured the facilities in Belo instead to give themselves the best chance of success this summer.Brazils loss is Britains gain and rather than looking at it as an expensive gamble, Team GB are confident the investment of time and money will pave the way for their most successful ever overseas Games. To do that they have to get a total of 48 medals, one more than they achieved in Beijing 2008. But having spent three days travelling around with the BOA delegation theres no sense of settling for that figure. Instead theres optimism that British performances in Rio could even push their greatest ever Olympic medal haul - when Team GB landed a total of 65 medals, including 29 golds in London. Sky Sports Orla Chennaoui brings us the latest news from Belo Horizonte where Team GB will soon begin their preparations for this summers Olympic Games As was the case in the build-up to London 2012 there are also negative headlines. Brazil is a country facing huge political and social problems, as well as a battle with the well-publicised Zika virus. Team GB want to leave their own human legacy in their home from home. Much of the training equipment being brought out and paid for by UK Sport will then be donated to local sports clubs in Belo Horizonte. 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Hes the favorite in every Mortal Kombat tournament, an ambassador for fighting games, one of the top earners in prize money from fighting game tournaments, and, most importantly, a winner.After his Community Effort Orlando (CEO) 2016 victory, hes the clear favorite to defend his title at the Evolution Fighting Game Championships (Evo). The 18-year-old already boasts three ESL Mortal Kombat X Pro League championships and two Evo tournament victories (Injustice in 2014 and Mortal Kombat X in 2015), and will only continue to add more hardware to his ever-expanding trophy room.Despite all the success, SonicFox remains humble. He understands that the next player to dethrone him could be an unknown gem waiting to be discovered. SonicFox cites Mark Twains advice for his ability to stay sharp during tournaments instead of resting on his laurels:The best swordsman in the world doesnt need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesnt do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isnt prepared for him; he does the thing he ought not to do; and often it catches the expert out and ends him on the spot.Im very confident in winning Evo. Theres no one opponent I cant beat; Ill beat everyone if I need to, SonicFox said. The competition is getting stronger. You never know how good a player is until they come out. Its very scary because I did lose a lot of matches at ESL to people Ive never seen before.One of those formerly unknown players, Panda Globals Brad Scar Vaughn, is arguably one of the biggest threats to SoniicFoxs continued tournament success.dddddddddddd He was the runner-up at CEO 2016 after an amazing set and gave SonicFox fits during his latest ESL championship run.After Scar took the advantage during their set, SonicFox returned to his old familiar character, Erron Black, and ran it all the way back. He admitted that Scar was one of the scariest opponents hed ever encountered; in the run up to CEO, he even said that he was afraid to face Scar. However, this ever-versatile kombatant with a ridiculous list of pocket characters remains the star in Mortal Kombat. SonicFoxs latest obsession, the character Alien, may be his trump card and the key to becoming a two-time Mortal Kombat X champion at Evo.Alien has everything a character has plus more, SonicFox said. He has amazing reach, very good 50/50s that can be kept safe, armor attacks that are 50/50s on wakeup, pressure and great anti-airs -- generally everything a character wishes they had.Although SonicFox has also competed and placed highly in Street Fighter V, his goal and current game is still 100 percent Mortal Kombat X. MKX has the most money on the line.I play other games, and I do enjoy playing other games, but right now theres so much for Mortal Kombat X and Im considered the top in the game. I got to get that money, SonicFox said. I plan on playing Injustice 2. I got to try it at E3 and its an amazing game. I was the best in Injustice with Batgirl and I plan on doing the same in the sequel with another character.SonicFox will need to prepare for both experts and unknown gems in order to stay on top and win a third Evo trophy. If he can maintain his dominance, he will prove to the fighting game community and the worldwide audience that theyll need to get used to him, because hes not going anywhere. ' ' '