2026-10-01
2 分钟Hello, I'm Lauren Laverne.
Welcome to Desert Island Discs Postcards,
where we share funny, moving and memorable moments directly from our desert island with you every weekday.
Our castaway today is the Olympic champion heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill.
When I spoke to her in 2021,
she told me how she approached her final event at the London 2012 Olympics, the 800 metres.
There was no point in just jogging round and doing it half-heartedly.
I wanted to push myself as hard as I could and have a great score and have that finish that I
really wanted at the end of two really tough days and the past few years of getting to that point as well.
And there is this iconic image of you with your arms stretched out wide,
crossing the finish line after those two exhausting days of competition.
And you can see in the background, you know, your rivals,
the faces are contorted with the effort and the pain of all of it.
But you just look completely serene.
It's almost like you're flying.
It's like a Titanic moment, arms out, you know, frown of the ship.
Just this serene look on your face.
What do you remember about that moment?
I just remember the last kind of 150 metres before the line,
I remember just having that feeling of the line is nearly there.