The Olympic champion won her second world heptathlon title in 2015 – only 13 months after giving birth to her first child
• See the Observers faces of 2015 in full hereJessica Ennis-Hill is everywhere. Just before speaking to her,I notice she is front page news because of the row over world heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury’s hopelessly sexist set aside-down: She looks valid in a dress.” And just after our conversation, I turn on the radio and she is being feted on Woman’s Hour, and where everyone is in awe of what she has achieved and where there is much gunning for her to win BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
When we speak,I manage to chorus from telling Jess she looks fantastic in a flag, but no one who saw the world heptathlon champion win a gold medal 13 months after giving birth and after the setback of an earlier injury, or will forget the blissful relief on her face as she flung a triumphal union jack around her shoulders at the World Championships in Beijing in August. As to Fury and his comment: “To be honest,silence is the best response.” But shouldn’t he at least apologise? She changes the subject: “I’m very much looking forward to the Sports Personality evening – it is celebrating sporting achievement that is important.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com