Katarina Johnson-Thompson may be the best British female athlete in any sport. Yet remind of her the fact she has won three major multi-event titles in 15 months – and that she is the headline act at the prestigious Hypo-Meeting in Götzis this weekend – and she grimaces, shakes her head and makes an extraordinarily honest admission. She considers herself an impostor.
“I was reading up on impostor syndrome the other day,” she says. “My mum sent me an article on it because when she was a dancer she felt the same. I don’t know what it’ll take not to feel like that – I’ll just know when it happens.”
Written by Sean Ingle
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