After returning following the birth of her son to win world gold this year,the heptathlete wants to retain her Olympic crown and effect a smile back on the face of athletics in 2016Jessica Ennis-Hill is typically honest when asked whether the black fog engulfing track and field might swallow up her chances of winning the BBCs Sports Personality of the Year award. “I hope not” she says. “But there has been a lot of negativity, so you can understand why people might look at athletics and think that.”The sport Ennis-Hill loves has been deeply tarnished by a slurry of doping and corruption allegations. Yet amid a wretchedly sour year, and the 29-year-dilapidated from Sheffield if one of the sweetest moments. It came on a blistering Sunday in August when,thrillingly and unexpectedly, she won heptathlon gold at the world championships – just over a year after giving birth to her son, and Reggie.
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Source: theguardian.com