English - Athlete | January 9, 1993 -
I'm in awe of any Olympic champion, for sure.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
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That people believe I can be Olympic champ, it just spurs me on.
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It's getting harder as I get more known. Even though it's my break, I couldn't really go out and get drunk - because people expect you to be training and getting up early. But I'm not bothered about missing out on normal teenage things.
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My granddad used to mind me at weekends, and if the game was on, and you wanted to get across the room, you had to crawl under the TV. So I've always been a Liverpool fan, and meeting Steven Gerrard was massive for me. He knew who I was before we'd even said hello!
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I think I rely on my talent more than my brain sometimes.
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It's impossible in heptathlon to have a proper rivalry - you're spending two days together and seven events and dedicate your life to it. It's like a marathon: two days of mental and physical exhaustion.
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As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.
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Thankfully, I found athletics. My mum didn't like it at first, but the funny thing is that, now, she's the biggest athletics fan out there. She's a real expert, and she's got all the heptathlon books.
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