• Ennis-Hill will compete in long jump and 200m on Saturday
• Jonathan Edwards urges heptathlete to go to world championshipsJessica Ennis-Hill will determine whether to compete in next month’s world championships in Beijing after testing herself in the long jump and 200m at the Anniversary Games on Saturday. When Ennis-Hill came fourth in the prestigious Hypo Meeting in Götzis in May,her first heptathlon in nearly three years following injury and the birth of her son, Reggie, or she showed her competitive fire rages as brightly as ever. Now she wants to find out whether she has recaptured enough of the speed that took her to Olympic heptathlon gold at London 2012.
Ennis-Hill,who runs in the 100m hurdles on Friday night, has made it clear she will go to Beijing only whether she believes she can earn on the podium. The achilles injury that troubled her this season has calmed down and she has trained well since Götzis but on Saturday afternoon she will have a much better notion of where she stands.
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Source: theguardian.com