The British team of 11 ranked second on the medals table for boxing in the Japanese capital with six medals including two gold.

However, 10 members have since left the team.

England, who was also Britain's Chef de Mission at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, insists that governing body GB Boxing is well placed to adapt to the changes to the team for the next Olympic Games.

"For many of the sports we work with, it is very common to see the same athletes representing Team GB at multiple Olympic Games, so the fact that only two boxers from the Rio team were present in Tokyo is a vivid illustration of the uniquely difficult situation GB Boxing faces in delivering sustainable success," he wrote in GB Boxing's Annual Review 2021-2022.

"However, the boxing team returned from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games with six medals having produced Great Britain's best performance for a century.

"It was a remarkable achievement and evidence of the strong foundations that exist at GB Boxing which have enabled the men and women in its squad to win medals at successive Games."

He reserved praise for performance director Rob McCracken and GB Boxing's coaches, and credited the facilities and "relaxed atmosphere with a genuine 'family' feeling" at the national training centre in Sheffield.

"As GB Boxing undertakes another rebuild of its Olympic team following the departure of 10 of the 11 boxers that competed in Tokyo, I have every reason to believe it has the foundations in-place to continue its success and inspire the next generation of Team GB boxers and athletes," England concluded.

The report went on to detail GB Boxing's plans to rebuild for the Olympic cycle up to Paris 2024, and some of the challenges associated with the delay to Tokyo 2020.

"Although GB Boxing has succession plans in place to deal with the departure of boxers at the end of an Olympic cycle, the loss of such a talented and experienced group combined with the unique circumstances of the previous two years meant that at the end of 2021 the organisation faced one of its biggest ever challenges," the report said.

"The extension of the Tokyo cycle by an extra year meant the new cohort of prospective Olympians had one year less to prepare for the 2024 Olympic Games.

"Added to this, the development of many in this group had been severely disrupted over the previous 18 months as Covid restrictions had frequently prevented them from training full-time in the GB Boxing gym, taking part in training camps with other countries or participating in international competitions.

"Alongside this GB Boxing’s Performance Pathways team ran a series of assessment camps to identify up-and-coming talents with the potential to compete at Paris 2024."

Boxing at Paris 2024 is set to be managed by an International Olympic Committee (IOC) Boxing Task Force for the second consecutive Games due to ongoing governance concerns at the International Boxing Association (IBA).

The sport remains off the initial programme for Los Angeles 2028, after a fresh warning was issued to the IBA after last week's IOC Executive Board meeting.