JESSICA ENNIS has got so used to the British public and media hanging Olympic heptathlon gold around her neck that she has given up thinking about it.
JESSICA ENNIS has got so used to the British public and media hanging Olympic heptathlon gold around her neck that she has given up thinking about it.
Ennis: 'I know how hard it is going to be, and what it is going to take'
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Doug Gillon
The cocoon which the world heptathlon No.1 inhabits is so tightly spun that she cannot envisage life after the Games. But she must break out of it today, to deliver on a nation's aspiration.
"It kind of washes over me now," says the poster girl of 2012. "I know how hard it is going to be, and what it is going to take – that it won't be easy at all – but I think people mean it in a nice way. They are saying: 'You winning that gold will be great'. So it is a nice kind of support.
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