Hodgkinson celebrates 'cementing herself as world's best'
Olympic gold medallist Keely Hodgkinson has described her win in the Women's 800m as 'absolutely surreal', adding it was incredible to cement herself as 'one of the world's best'. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I think I was just waiting to cross a line, just to make sure.
00:02You know, you can never be too sure,
00:04but, you know, it was absolutely surreal.
00:06I think you have a moment of relief
00:07because there was a lot of expectation going into it
00:09and, you know, I really wanted to live up to that
00:12and really cement myself as one of the world's best
00:14and to finally do that is just, yeah, it's incredible.
00:16To join the likes of Jess and Kelly and Denise
00:19and all those women that have won Olympic gold,
00:21I think there's nine of us in total in the track and field,
00:24which is absolutely crazy.
00:25And I looked at Jess as a big inspiration back then
00:27and I sort of think, how did she do that?
00:30And now I've got my own, so, yeah, it's great.
00:32I'm 22, so I've still only got ten more years than me.
00:36Yeah, the way athletics goes, it's constantly moving forward,
00:38so I'll enjoy this moment and there's still so much to do.
00:41You know, I don't have a world championship gold yet,
00:43so that's the one that I'm missing.
00:45We've got the world's next year back in Tokyo,
00:46so it'd be great to go back there
00:48and do one better than I did last time.
00:49And there's a whole world record to attempt,
00:51there's so much yet to do, world indoor medals,
00:54and I can't wait to attack it.