Can Katarina Johnson-Thompson banish her Olympic bogeyman? After a supremely relaxed performance on the first day of the women’s heptathlon he should be quaking in his boots.
Johnson-Thompson defied her injury-hit buildup to these Games to knockout season-bests in the high jump and 100m hurdles and a huge personal best in the shot put to place herself in pole position at the end of day one of the seven-discipline event.
