Same actors, different set. While her family won’t physically be in Rio, the 30-year-old Great Britain star will always have them behind her mentally and emotionally.
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“This is Elinor’s first Olympic Games, and the gold medal will add to her multiple world titles achieved as both a junior and senior rider”. This time it was pure torture.
Ennis-Hill’s compatriot Katarina Johnson-Thompson, 23, trails in fourth place, 100 points behind.
Theisen-Eaton’s time of 13.18sec left her sixth place overall after the first event.
“I knew I had to beat Thiam by about 10 seconds”, Ennis said. Her parents, Alison Powell and Vinnie Ennis, got her into athletics at a young age and did everything necessary for her to be able to attain her goals.
“These two days have been really tough but I’m really proud”.
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“I’ve just got to make a decision as to whether this is my last heptathlon or not”, the London 2012 champion said afterwards as she tried, unsuccessfully, to hold back the tears.
Thiam’s rise has been rapid and staggering.
But those aren’t the only three with realistic gold medal hopes on day seven, Laura Trott leads Team GB’s women’s team pursuit quartet on the track in the velodrome hoping to become the first British female to win three Olympic titles.
The result ended her challenge for bronze, having seen a awful shot put showing rule her out of gold medal contention on day one. Even three days ago the bookies thought she was a long shot, at 50-1, for gold.
Ennis-Hill started her campaign on Friday and returns ahead of the rest of the pack with two events remaining, while fellow Briton Mo Farah will be looking to defend his 10,000m title.
Jessica Ennis-Hill will mull over whether to continue her illustrious heptathlon career after a second-placed finish at Rio 2016 on Saturday.
Thiam’s victory was built on a flurry of personal bests – and launching a javelin with a ruptured elbow ligament – as she survived a stern examination in the 800m to triumph.
Two years after the birth of her son Reggie, the Sheffield athlete accepted her competition in Rio might have been her farewell.
She was a former United Kingdom record holder at the high jump and 100 hurdles, being true global standard at the latter.
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Nafi Thiem of Beligum leads the pack with 5,018 points after recording a personal best 6.58m in the long jump. She’s got some strong events and some that don’t work for her. “I do like to have the pressure that every athlete needs, that pressure to bring out that performance in themselves”, she says. “I keep hearing all these little bits of stats flying around but I see it as a massive challenge for me”.
