Why is ennis not in hurdles

Recent Posts. Search Search for:. Twitter Feed AW Follow. Reply on Twitter Retweet on Twitter Like on Twitter Twitter Reply on Twitter Retweet on Twitter 1 Like on Twitter Twitter Feb Jul July 30, - August 7, Jessica Ennis says she will not run in the m hurdles following her Olympic triumph in the heptathlon. The year-old from Sheffield considered competing in the event, which starts on Monday, after running a personal best time of I'm more than happy with that and I just need to rest now.

Ennis, who missed out on competing in the Beijing Olympics because of injury, clocked a time in the first event of the heptathlon that would have won gold at the Games. It was also a world best in the multi-event discipline. But the Sheffield athlete told BBC Breakfast she wanted to rest and revel in becoming Olympic champion for the first time. People probably think I'm being a cow bag!

The year-old had a similar experience before the Beijing Olympic Games when the third hurdle in the race at Crystal Palace was positioned wrongly forcing her to pull up and the race to be annulled and eventually re-run at the end of the night. Dwain Chambers was greeted with applause from the Manchester crowd at his first appearance in the UK since the court of arbitration for sport ruling that cleared him to compete at the Olympic Games in London. The US sprinter Wallace Spearmon, a world silver and bronze medallist over m, took the victory in Chambers, who will attempt to qualify for the London Games at the Team GB trials in Birmingham next month, admitted to having been apprehensive before the race, unsure of how the public would react to his first paid appearance on home soil in six years.

I was unsure how the reception would be. I was a bit scared, to be honest.