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Ennis Hill backs Johnson Thompson for Commonwealth gold

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Olympic gold medal champion Jessica Ennis Hill said fellow heptathlon athlete Katarina Johnson Thompson is “really capable� of getting a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in summer 2014: “I think it is going to be a fantastic championships for her, I think that showing what she’s showed already so early on in the season, she’s on absolutely incredible form and she’s only going to take that into the summer; so I think to Commonwealth Games this year is a great championships for her to show what she’s got and I think she is really capable of taking the gold medal here.� Jessica Ennis Hill, who is not taking part in the championships because she is pregnant, said she would “have absolutely loved to have competed� but is “very excited� at becoming a mum and is keeping fit: “I’ve got my coach and my team around me and they are advising me on what’s sensible to do and what I can and can’t do so I am keeping some level of fitness and doing a bit of light running and on the bike and doing what I can to tick over and keep some level of fitness and as healthy as I can.�

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