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Ennis the star of the Games

QUAZIZULQUARNAIN ISLAM from London
There is something uniquely thrilling about JKr watching an athlete at the very top of his or her game. Perhaps it is the execution of ' a finely honed skill, perhaps
it is the sheer physicality needed or perhaps it is the scheming tactics required that makes the heptathlon the most gruelling of Olympic sports.
And watching Jessica Ennis win gold at the heptathlon on Saturday alongside 70,000 cheering Brits, you got the feeling that the hero (or rather heroine) of the Games had finally arrived.
In all marketing campaigns centred on Team Great Britain, Ennis has been pushed front and centre. She is there on the underground, she is there on big billboards, on
newspapers, she is even there on a giant banner in front of the Westfield mall that you have to walk through to get to the Olympic Stadium.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that the unassuming heptathlete has been the face of London 2012, as far as Britons are concerned. As is usual with those things, the hope of an expectant British nation was thrust on her slender shoulders.
This has never bode well for Britons.
Their footballers have consistently failed to deliver on the world stage, choking at important moments. Team GB bowed out on Saturday in the quarterfinals to South Korea. Earlier in the day Ennis too had conceded that such an outcome was possible.
“You can be as fit as you want and as prepared as you want, but something can always go wrong,” said Ennis. Those were cautionary words, even as with the last event remaining, Ennis had a commanding lead.
In the modern Games, track and field and swimming have overtaken heptathlon as the most prized medal sport. But in ancient Greece, the person best able to complete the gruelling seven-sport contest was considered to be the greatest Olympian. With good reason too. The heptathlon includes the 100 metre hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200 metre, long jump, javelin throw, and finally the 800 metre, over a two-day period.
No wonder then that for any athlete worth their salt, winning this constitutes perhaps the biggest achievement in their careers. Winning the Olympic gold in front of 70,000 baying home fans then, is on another level.
"I don't know what to say really, I'm still in shock," said Ennis, following her long laps of honour around the Olympic Stadium. “It's been a brilliant couple of days. There was an expectation for gold before I got on the track. To have come here in one piece and delivered is a dream come true."
Ennis did not just deliver it. She dismantled the opposition, one step at a time. To be excellent in one Olympic sport is difficult. To be very good or world class at five of the seven in the heptathlon is phenomenal.
“The heptathlon is one of the toughest events, with so many highs and lows, but I came into the competition in good shape, the bestshapeofmy life,” said Ennis.
“I had the belief that I could do it. The crowd lift you so much, they support you so much. Starting so well with the hurdles, the momentum rolled into other events." In the 100m hurdles on Friday, Ennis set a heptathlon world best of 12.54 seconds -- not too far behind the best ever run in the single discipline, 12.21.
Ennis's gold sparked off an amazing day for Britain in the Olympics. Greg Rutherford won gold in the long jump and later, Mo Farah completed an amazing last-act victory in the 10,000 metres. It was Great Britain's most successful day in the Olympics for over a century.
While Farah and Rutherford were adequately toasted, the real affection, you feel, resides with Ennis.
“This is my first Olympics,” a smiling Ennis had said in the mixed zones before her achievement. On this evidence, it certainly will not be her last.