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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.
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Thankfully, I found athletics. My mum didn't like it at first, but the funny thing is that, now, she's the biggest athletics fan out there. She's a real expert, and she's got all the heptathlon books.
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You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
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In the heptathlon, you can be any shape. Some of the girls are more built than others, and their strong events are the shot put and javelin.
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In the lead-up to competitions, I just watch box sets and DVDs and play 'Candy Crush.'
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.
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I want people to tell me the truth.
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I want to win medals for myself.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.
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I can always go back to education.
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I'm very wholehearted. I want to concentrate on one thing in my life at one time.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I think 2020 can still be my time.
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I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.
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When it comes to peaking at the right time, I have to thank my coach Mike Holmes: he is a genius.
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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I like to balance competing with studying. It's hard work at the moment, but it could be worse.
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I'm training once a day, four days a week, and just loving life.
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Record-breaking is not getting boring. I am definitely happy with that.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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That people believe I can be Olympic champ, it just spurs me on.
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Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.
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Competing in London would be a dream come true.
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I'm in awe of any Olympic champion, for sure.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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