Life is different. I’ve had some time away from the sport, I’ve had injuries, got married, had my son, so life is very different, but really just a unique and unbelievable journey to this Olympics as well.
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Farah headed to Brazil on the back of running his fastest 5,000m since before the last Olympics and the quickest in the world this year at the London Anniversary Games.
“I’m just proud to be back on the podium”. ‘I just literally ran from start to finish and didn’t look back so I could walk off the track knowing I went eyeballs out and gave it everything’.
“I don’t want to cry”.
“Elinor has been supported in her career by Welsh Cycling as she progressed to the British Cycling programme, and it is a proud moment to see her achieve on the Olympic stage”.
“It’s hard as you want to end at the very top”, she said.
“There’s definitely some younger, new athletes coming through and performing well”.
It comes after a triumphant day on Friday.
“I was like “oh god that’s so much”, she said. It’s like, have you still got stuff in the basement?’
“I’m going to get home and see Reggie and (husband) Andy and have a holiday, a break and switch off and relax, I can’t wait”.
Clocking 10.71 to miss her PB by just 0.01, she beat USA’s Tori Bowie and “pocket rocket” Fraser-Pryce, who clocked respective times of 10.83 and 10.86 for silver and bronze.
“This is my last Olympics, and it’s odd knowing I won’t be at another major championships like these”, Ennis-Hill said.
Motherhood had changed everything, she said. “She’s had two great days she wasn’t going to give that up”. I might not do that event again, this event again.
Ennis-Hill wiped away tears after losing her Olympic title to Belgium’s Nafissatou Thiam on Saturday by a very slim margin, but she wasn’t crying about that.
“I’m disappointed with my performance, I should have done better”, said the Liverpool athlete.
The action resumes in the evening session with the shot and 200m.
“I’m in decent shape”, he had said.
“She had had two days of awesome performances”. The complicating factor in her decision is the fact that next year’s world championships are in London.
Johnson-Thompson said it was a mental rather than physical failure in the shot. She had to beat Thiam in the 800m by nearly 10 seconds and only just missed out with a season best performance.
Jessica Ennis-Hill is poised to call time on her glittering career after having to settle for second best at her last Olympics. She went out to 6.58m in the long jump and threw a monster 53.13m in the javelin before the 800m showdown.
Theisen-Eaton, who took silver behind Ennis-Hill at last year’s World Championships in Beijing, was left trailing in the Briton’s wake, finishing in sixth place.
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“I’m just really emotional”, she said. Not what she would have wanted but still fantastic from @J_Ennis. I’d have to train incredibly hard to be at this level. Maybe top eight, but not the gold.
