Sam Warburton has been passed fully fit after recovering from a knee injury, with the British and Irish Lions in full swing of their second week of training.
The Cardiff Blues back row, who will captain the iconic side for the second time during their summer tour to New Zealand, suffered the injury during the Guinness PRO12 clash with Ulster, back in April.
Warburton, who has made 14 appearances for the region this season, completed his rehab following light training at the Vale of Glamorgan base last week and is available for selection for his side's first game of the tour, against New Zealand Provincial Barbarians on June 3.
Warburton said: "I am fine now, fully fit which is good.
"Last week in the Vale camp I was pretty much doing everything, apart from just the last little bit of contact stuff.
"But today I trained fully, we did full contact and I was absolutely fine. That's all the boxes ticked from a physio point of view.
"I have done everything they wanted me to do, the rehab has gone pretty smoothly so now they can let me crack on - I am a fully fit member of the squad now."
Following the conclusion of the Guinness PRO12 and Aviva Premiership semi-finals, Warburton and co were joined by Lions representatives from Saracens, Leicester Tigers, Ospreys and Leinster for the second week of training, at Carton House, Ireland.
The skipper is excited to see the increase in the training intensity this week, and is expecting the competitiveness in training to ramp up as the first test approaches.
Warburton, who captained the Lions on their victorious 2013 test series against Australia, is also disappointed with the news that Billy Vunipola has been ruled out of the tour with injury, but is confident the experience of replacement James Haskell will boost the squad.
"We have only had one day here (in Ireland) but we are starting to build up our scrum and lineout and do it all fully loaded.
"We have been working the lineout and scrum from a forward perspective, you can really see us getting the ball rolling now and building some momentum.
"On Tour (in 2013) people were second-guessing, and when the Test team was named the session after that was extremely competitive, guys were disappointed but they knew they had to front up.
"I expect no different this time. At the moment, training is a little bit more about helping each other out, bringing each other along. It will be a little more competitive the closer you get (to the Tests)."
"Billy was one of the guys I was looking forward to playing with," added the captain.
"I had been keeping a close eye on him and some of the Sarries guys. It's a big loss but James coming in will become one of the most experienced guys.
"Before the Tour I said, we are so lucky that you can lose ten players and ten would come in and not really change the quality of the squad.
"James was one of the unluckiest guys, he was massive for England last year and in the Six Nations and a player who will have a big impact on this Tour.
"Billy's was a brave call to put the team first, he will be gutted but he could potentially go on another two Tours.
"He will be back in four years time at top of his game and red hot for the Lions as well."