Different pressures now for 'star' Kelly
ISLE of Wight-born Olympic bronze medal winning heptathlete Kelly Sotherton is now back from Athens and, after time to take stock, she speaks to the Southern Daily Echo about her experience...
KELLY SOTHERTON is finding it hard to come back down after the emotional high of winning an Olympic medal.
The Isle of Wight-born athlete, 27, claimed bronze in the women's heptathlon in Greece last month.
Had she gone two seconds faster in the final event, the 800m, she would have won silver.
Sotherton, who lives in Birmingham, has confessed she now has to handle greater pressure and public expectation - starting with next year's World Championships in Helsinki.