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- Updated: August 11, 2016
Not that Jessica Ennis-Hill is allowing herself to dream about it, but hanging ominously over the second day of athletics competition is the ghost of ‘Super Saturday’ which, if the excitement generated by the August 13 timetable is anything to go by, threatens resurrection.
Day two of the Rio athletics schedule sees the heroic British trio reunite in simultaneous competition four years on from that night in London as Ennis-Hill joins Greg Rutherford – pending morning qualification – and Mo Farah as they attempt to defend their respective heptathlon, long jump and 10,000m titles.
While it’s hard for her to not get swept away in the nostalgia when reminiscing her part of what is arguably the greatest night of sporting achievement in British history, Ennis-Hill, the Olympic and two-time world heptathlon champion, was keen to pour cold water on the possibility of a repeated collective achievement to match that seen in London.
“It would be incredible to achieve it again. I’m not sure if that’s possible or not. But just to be a part of that amazing moment four years ago was something I never really imagined. I’m not going to be too greedy and imagine it will happen again but it was really special,” said Ennis-Hill.
“I’m happy the timetable has fallen like that because it’s a really nice moment to be in the stadium together, knowing what we achieved four years ago and knowing that we’re all going out there to try and achieve again what we did this time four years ago.”
If the 30-year-old is to retain her title – a “massive challenge” which she is eager at the prospect of tackling – she would become only the second female heptathlete to win two golds, replicating Jackie Joyner-Kersee’s feat of 1988 and 1992, which followed on from her silver at the 1984 Los Angeles Games.
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