I know it can be difficult to try and achieve your dreams when you don't have the same advantages as some other people may have, but this is a country full of opportunity where amazing things can happen, if you are willing to hustle and be smart about it.

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• Katarina Johnson-Thompson:

  I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.

• Katarina Johnson-Thompson:

  If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.

• Katarina Johnson-Thompson:

  I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.

• Katarina Johnson-Thompson:

  Thankfully, I found athletics. My mum didn't like it at first, but the funny thing is that, now, sh

• Katarina Johnson-Thompson:

  You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportuniti

• Katarina Johnson-Thompson:

  In the heptathlon, you can be any shape. Some of the girls are more built than others, and their st

• Katarina Johnson-Thompson:

  In the lead-up to competitions, I just watch box sets and DVDs and play 'Candy Crush.'

• Katarina Johnson-Thompson:

  I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they loo

• Katarina Johnson-Thompson:

  Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.

• Katarina Johnson-Thompson:

  I want people to tell me the truth.