wait goes on. Three successive years a medal candidate and three successive years a disappointment.
It begs the question: What will it take for her to make good on her abundant talent?
The problem at these London World Championships on Sunday was that the ship had long ago sailed. It was not even lunchtime on day one of the heptathlon when a nightmare high jump – her favourite event – had put paid to her podium hopes.
Two years ago in Beijing it had been a horrifying long jump and last year in Rio it was the combined effect of two dismal throwing events.
No discernible pattern, but the same result – head in hands, forlorn look and an empty-handed departure. All the upheaval of relocating her life from Liverpool to a new training setup in southern France last winter for a fifth-place finish as Belgium’s Olympic champion Nafi Thiam ran away with the title.
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