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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Exclusive by Sean Ingle

Johnson-Thompson one of 50 athletes to use revered World Cup dressing room

Katarina Johnson-Thompson will be one of just 50 decathletes and heptathletes using the facility.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson will be one of just 50 decathletes and heptathletes using the facility. Photograph: Adam Davy/PA

Katarina Johnson-Thompson will be one of only 50 track and field athletes at the Paris Olympics allowed to use the same iconic dressing room as France’s 1998 World Cup winners, the Guardian can reveal.

The home changing room at the Stade de France is regarded as an inner sanctum of French sport, with the shirts worn by the stars of that famous team, including ­Zinedine Zidane and Thierry Henry, still ­hanging on its walls.

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