The 31-year-old, who had to settle for bronze at the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Games, has confirmed that next year's Games in the French capital will be her last.

Cook, who married her long-term partner and fellow taekwondo athlete Aaron Cook last year, fell on golden point to China's Shuyin Lee in the 2016 semi-finals and  then lost to a last-second head-kick against Dabin Lee in Tokyo.

But she insists that she is more motivated than ever to complete her career with another success.

"It's definitely the last one I'm going for so I'm going to give it everything I've got," Cook told reporters.

"All I've got on my mind is getting to Paris and winning that gold.

"I know I'm still good enough and if I can finish my career with a gold medal in Paris it would be the fairy-tale ending."

In the meantime, Cook is hoping to make more history in her sport by becoming the first woman to win four world taekwondo titles in Baku, Azerbaijan later this month.

Cook won consecutive gold medals in Chelyabinsk, Muju and Manchester between 2015 and 2019 but failed to make it four in a row when she missed out on the 2022 tournament in Guadalajara due to injury.

"I never thought I'd be in the position to make history after missing the last one, so it is a great motivation to become the only female ever to have four gold medals," Cook added.

"Making history is the sort of thing that motivates you through another cycle because for me it is all about that Olympic gold - I would give everything else away for that right now.

"But I don't feel like I'm chasing anything.

"I could go to Paris having won four world titles and five Europeans so I have already achieved more than I ever dreamed of in this sport.

"Paris would be the happy ending but if I didn't get it I wouldn't be going to try again to get to the next one."

Britain's 11-strong team for the World Championships also includes double Olympic champion Jade Jones, and Cook's fellow Tokyo medallists Lauren Williams and Bradly Sinden.