Sunday, 7 February 2016

Lewis dreaming of GB heptathlon dominance

Former Olympic heptathlon champion Denise Lewis is seeking after a Great Britain one-two in the occasion at the current year's Games in Rio de Janeiro. 

Jessica Ennis-Hill heads to Brazil as dominant Olympic and best on the planet, having won the last only three months subsequent to coming back from the conception of her child. 

Katarina Johnson-Thompson, in the interim, asserted gold in the pentathlon at the 2015 European Indoor Championships, and Lewis is quick to see both making their blemish on the seven-discipline occasion in Rio. 

"That [a one-two] would be everybody's fantasy," she said. "It would be the most ideal result. 

"In any case, there's far to go to Rio. There's a great deal of preparing still to be done, a considerable measure of rivalries. 

"It gets harder, however Jess had a sensational year a year ago. Katarina not in this way, but rather individuals overlook that she won the European Indoor Championships, simply passing up a major opportunity for a world record. 

"An extremely skilled individual she implies business too." 

Group GB could win 79 awards in Rio, surpassing the aggregate accomplished in London four years prior. 

"That is the point, that is the objective, to really complete as high on the platform as we did last time around," included Lewis. 

"I believe it's achievable. Those objectives are set and measured by the achievement of past World Championships and I believe we're fit as a fiddle."

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