McIntyre combined with Hannah Mills to claim the women's 470 gold in the Japanese capital.

However, with 470 set to a mixed gender event at Paris 2024, the 28-year-old McIntyre who has been training with Martin Wrigley since Tokyo, said the "time frame available" is too short to repeat the feat.

"I want to go to another Olympics and I want to challenge for another medal but I only want to go if I’m going to be battling it out for gold," said.

"I don’t want to go and be in that final race of the Olympics absolutely nowhere near to getting a medal.

"These things happen at the Olympics and you can’t control it.

"But I, in my heart, just don’t believe that in the time frame available to us that we are going to be in a situation to battle it out for a medal and for a gold.

"I just lost belief in that cause.

"I don’t want to go to the Games for the t-shirt."

McIntyre won the 470 world gold in 2019 in Enoshima, Japan and also has a silver medal from 2017.

She is also a four-time European medallist in the category.

Born in Hayling Island in Hampshire, McIntyre joined British Sailing at the age of 15.

Her father Michael McIntyre is also a sailing champion from the Seoul 1988 Summer Games, making them Britain's first-ever father-daughter gold medal winners.