Phillips Idowu has vowed to take the triple jump to new dimensions and produce something special in Beijing - or even sooner.

The flamboyant 29-year-old is the world leader in the event this year and continued his fine form at the Aviva National Championships and Olympic trials on Sunday with a huge leap of 17.58metres to easily take victory ahead of Larry Achike and Nathan Douglas.

It was his first attempt of the competition and also a season's best, eclipsing the 17.55m he set in Crete at the start of June, while he seemingly broke no sweat in following this up with further jumps of 17.57m and 17.27 before calling it a day.

With few genuine gold medal chances for British athletics in Beijing next month, the pressure is on the Commonwealth champion to deliver.

Four years ago in Athens he didn't cope and failed to land a legal jump in the final but this time the weight of expectation on his shoulders doesn't bother him and he's purely focused on the task in hand.

"I don't feel any added pressure," he said. "I just want to go out and do what I've been doing all year, jump big distances and keep winning.

"I'm comfortable being British number one, world number one, winning week in week out - that's just part of my job and that's where I want to be."

Ambitiously he predicts he can smash Jonathan Edwards' 1995 world record mark of 18.29m, taking the event to a new level.

This year's World Indoor gold medallist said: "I really think I could put 80cm to a metre onto what I'm doing now. I think 18.40m isn't beyond all capability if I nail one right and run through like I know I can run through and complete my jump properly then it's not a problem.

"You see I'm practically jogging in and going out to 17.50 and that's comfortable for me."

Idowu also revealed his coach Aston Moore is hoping for great things while Peter Stanley, who coached Edwards, has also been impressed with his staggering efforts in training.

He said: "Aston has seen what I'm capable of doing off the short approach and a couple of other coaches. Even Pete Stanley said the distances I've been doing of eight strides, Jonathan couldn't get within a metre of that. But that's different because I'm a lot taller than Jonathan and it's easier for me to get the range.

"Off eight strides I've jumped around 17.60 or there or thereabouts."

Idowu isn't merely waiting until Beijing to end the 13-year-old mark and feels he's in the right shape to break it even as early as the Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace a week on Friday.

He said: "Hopefully, if I stay injury free and keep progressing I can do something special.

"I've got another week of training before on to Crystal Palace and I'm hoping for a massive jump there. I'm hoping for something serious.

"Keep your eyes open. If the conditions are right then it's possible.

"But it doesn't matter. If I do it before or I do it there (Beijing), even if I just get close to it, I still have it in my head to go and win the Games. That's the most important thing right now."

Even if he doesn't quite manage to achieve his ultimate target this year, it only seems a matter of time before he eventually succeeds.

He said: "Jonathan in the past has said that if anyone is capable of doing it, I'm capable of doing it and I believe that too. But you never know when it's going to happen.

"When Jonathan broke it in 1995 he wasn't expecting to go as far as he did. But I've got the benefit of knowing what it took for him to get there."

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