Team selection for the 2026 Glasgow Commonwealth Games is likely to be confirmed in April or May.
Channel Island athletes are "raring to go" to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow this summer.
Jersey has 21 competitors, while Guernsey could take up to 20.
Team Guernsey manager, Karina Jackson, said she was confident the island would send a strong group to Scotland, which is hosting the event after the Australian state of Victoria pulled out.
She added: "We're all really excited. We've got athletes who are raring to go, get selected and make the steps over to Glasgow."
Guernsey hopes to win in athletics, boxing, bowls and swimming, while Jersey is hoping to qualify in swimming, athletics, boxing and possibly weightlifting, judo and bowls.
Team selection will likely be confirmed in April or May.
Jersey last secured medals at the Auckland Commonwealth Games in 1990, thanks to shooters Colin Mallett and Cliff Le Cheminant.
Meanwhile, Team Guernsey won two medals at the last games in Birmingham in 2022 - the most successful haul by the island since Edinburgh in 1986.
Lucy Beere won silver in the women's singles bowls, while Alastair Chalmers took bronze in the 400m hurdles - the island's first ever athletics medal.
In Glasgow, he hopes for even greater success.
"I'm going to be going for that gold medal," Mr Chalmers said.
"My event's come on a long way over the last six, seven years, so I've just got to get in the final and what happened in Birmingham hopefully will happen again in Glasgow.
"I'm better than I ever have been."
While Mr Chalmers usually represents Team GB in international competitions, at the Commonwealth Games he will again be wearing Guernsey Green.
"I'm very proud to compete for Guernsey - I love it," he said.
"It's a special feeling when I can be at a global competition against Jamaica, Nigeria, all these huge countries and I'm wearing the kit for Guernsey - a little island between England and France."
"Fewer sports"
2026 will be the second time Glasgow has hosted the competition, having welcomed athletes and fans back in 2014.
The city stepped in after Victoria pulled out of hosting, citing escalating costs.
"It is a smaller games solely because Australia pulled out quite late into the process," said Ms Jackson.
But Jean Cross, Vice-President of the Commonwealth Games Association of Jersey, said some athletes are disappointed their sports are no longer included.
"I really understand the disappointment, but we now know that the games will happen in 2030 in India and it will be back up to 15 to 17 sports.
"Hopefully, athletes in the sports that aren't in Glasgow do take comfort from the fact that, in 2030, hopefully we'll have them back in."
Jersey cyclist, Rhys Hidrio, finished 10th in the men's mountain bike cross country at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
The event has been cut from the 2026 scaled down schedule, along with road cycling.
Mr Hidrio said the decision has left a number of cyclists disappointed.
"Some athletes that work full-time worked really hard to get all the training in only to miss this opportunity," he said.
Team Guernsey officials said the standard of the sporting venues should make for a great competition.
"We went up and spent a few days up in Glasgow last month looking at the facilities" said Guernsey's chef de mission, Peter Jory.
"We knew from 2014 that they were fantastic, and they still are, so we've got no problem with what they're going to offer."
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