Jemma Reekie is one of the most pleasant people in the circuit. I enjoy your Scottish accent, which, for me, requires a bit of focus. This piece of Jemma is from Stuart Weir, and it is his third piece in Doha. Stuart Weir has interviewed Jemma many times.
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Jemma Reekie Third in Doha
Jemma Reekie opened her season outdoors with third place in the Daha Diamond League. His time, in a slow and tactical race in which the field ignored the pacemaker was 4: 07.44. The race was Nelly Chepchirchir in 4: 05.00. Reekie directed an intelligent career, Stay out of trouble ending behind two Kenyans but ahead of seven other Africans of the East.
Reekie had previously run 2 of 800 interiors in France, but had decided against a competitive interior season with the February of the World Championship, which did not believe that it reaches its maximum point for a European or worldwide inside in the interior in February/March.
Reekie had finished fourth at Olympic 800 2021, in a race in which six of the top 7, including her, had run a PR. Reekie was ready to take the bronze medal until a late race for Raven Rogers left Reekie 0.09 seconds outside the medals. In Paris last year, she, the fastest was semifinalist so as not to reach the final. Athletes are often judged only in the main championship of the year, which would make 2024 a failure, but Jemma can look at the general panorama and take positive from his first full -year work with the new coach, John Bigg. 2024 was a year in which he had received a medal in the world inside and directed an RP in the London Diamond League. His record of the Diamond League was impressive, winner in Stockholm, second in Doha, London and Poland, third in Pre and Lausana, fourth in Zurich: “I think we had many positive aspects of 2024 and we learned a lot, but it was still difficult not to achieve what I wanted to achieve. But it has only been a year, working with John and we have much to wait. It’s just that I need that extra time.
“Paris was really difficult. It was my second Olympic Games and The second Olympic Games that I went when a medal would have a realistic objective. It was very difficult to get away, not even doing the final, so I think it was really complicated and it is something that my whole team and I have learned, but London was great. He had not been able to execute a better personal moment for a long time and make London end and Obtaining that staff was a great impulse of trust for me and John because we have a leg together and we are doing as much new training that it was like, “ok, this is working, we are in the right direction.” And that was a great advance of recent years and A confirmation we are doing the right thing. But there are also charges in which we can work. ”
Jemma has normally been seen as an 800 corridor, but his ambitions go beyond that.
“I think that for the next Olympic Games, it would definitely be 800, but I will run more 1500 throughout the years that approach that. I really think it helps my 800 and maybe after the next Llics, I bothered so well in the fifty so well in the fifty so well in the fifty so well, so well in mutilation. That I will definitely focus on 800 for the next Olympic cycle.
She admitted that she did not enjoy training 1500, but she saw it as useful, developing her resistance for the 800. Once I pointed out that Jess Judd had first represented Britain for 800, but now she was executing 10k, half marathons and was planning a complete marathon. She cools my short comment Shrift: “I’m not making a marathon.”
Doha was a good first exit in 2025 with much more to come.
