The world champion has been revitalised by a move to Montpellier and has put the lows of 2016 and 2017 behind her
“In a way I crave those moments now,” Katarina Johnson-Thompson says of the quiet and the solitude that helped her become the heptathlon world champion this year after she had suffered so much doubt and disappointment in past major events. “If I don’t get enough quiet time now, I go a bit mad. I like that quiet time, especially between training sessions.”
Johnson-Thompson flies back from her warm weather training camp in Martinique on Saturday and she will join five other athletes on the shortlist for the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year on a cold Sunday evening in Aberdeen. It is another sign of the progress she has made in 2019 that Johnson-Thompson has been selected alongside Ben Stokes, Dina Asher-Smith, Raheem Sterling, Lewis Hamilton and Alun Wyn Jones in the annual BBC vote.
Written by Donald McRae
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/dec/13/katarina-johnson-thompson-world-champion-athletics-interview-tokyo-2020 under the title “Katarina Johnson-Thompson: ‘I didn’t want to be at the Rio Olympics but I’m ready for Tokyo’”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
