\n
The delight was evident on Hodgkinson\u2019s face as she crossed the line to deafening noise at the stadium where she was unable to compete last year because of illness.<\/p>\n
A three-time global silver medallist, the European champion was in dazzling form and demonstrated she is ready to end her wait for a global gold after a series of near-misses.<\/p>\n
In the absence of American defending champion Athing Mu in Paris, world champion Mary Moraa represents the main obstacle to success for Hodgkinson, who beat the Kenyan in Eugene this season.<\/p>\n
“I felt really good. I just wanted to go for it and see what was there. It was a little bit of bravery and fearlessness,” Hodgkinson said.<\/p>\n
“With a great atmosphere like this, I didn’t want to waste the opportunity. I’m feeling really good and confident ahead of Paris.”<\/p>\n
Reekie – the second-fastest woman this year after running 1:55.61 – will take huge confidence before her podium bid, having missed out on Olympic bronze by 0.08secs in Tokyo, while Bell (1:56.28) and Muir (1:57.63) recorded fast times before contesting the Olympic 1500m.<\/p>\n
Among GB’s other Olympic medal contenders, Caudery, whose British record clearance of 4.92m is unmatched in the world this year, said her performance felt like a 2lost opportunity”.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t quite do as well as I wanted. It’s always such a dream competing here. I love this stadium, I love the British crowd and I still had a lot of fun,” said the 24-year-old.<\/p>\n
“I’m really excited for my first Olympics, I know today didn’t go as planned but I’ve got so much consistency behind me this year and I’m feeling confident.”<\/p>\n
In the long jump, Johnson-Thompson, who is aiming to beat two-time defending Olympic heptathlon champion Nafi Thiam in Paris, replicated the 6.54m jump she produced in winning her second heptathlon world title last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The delight was evident on Hodgkinson\u2019s face as she crossed the line to deafening noise at the stadium where she was unable to compete last year because of illness. A three-time global silver medallist, the European champion was in dazzling form and demonstrated she is ready to end her wait for a global gold after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2098,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions\/2098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}