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"It's hard because the pressure grows all the time. Next month I go to Osaka for the world championships and the questions start all over again. I will be asked how I will feel if I finally get beaten. I will be reminded that I haven't lost [in] 18 competitions in a row. For some athletes this would be a good pressure. It would inspire them to say, well, I'm going to win No19 now. But everyone's different. For me it's a very bad pressure when I'm made to think about it too much.
"Five years is a long time and so people are curious to know what I think. But it becomes difficult for me. It just helps that when I train here [at Varendsvallen, her secluded camp near the town of Vaxjo, a 30-minute drive from Gothenburg] I don't go, 'Oh no, I have to keep winning!' That would be crazy if I had those words in my head, going blah-blah-blah all the time. I would just quit then."
"Five years is a long time and so people are curious to know what I think. But it becomes difficult for me. It just helps that when I train here [at Varendsvallen, her secluded camp near the town of Vaxjo, a 30-minute drive from Gothenburg] I don't go, 'Oh no, I have to keep winning!' That would be crazy if I had those words in my head, going blah-blah-blah all the time. I would just quit then."
"Right now my heart tells me that after the Olympics I might break from the heptathlon and focus on one event. The long jump is the obvious one but I also like the triple jump and even the 400m hurdles. I would like to pick one and concentrate on that. The pressure will be different and that must be good. But I can change my mind and go on in the heptathlon.
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