![]() ![]() Among a myriad talents, which include a singing appearance on The Voice, a law degree from the University of Bristol and a bobsleigh silver medal at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics, Sawyers has a passion for sewing and regularly makes her own outfits.Īnd, with the razzmatazz of the Diamond League “walk-on” introductions, she is planning a surprise on Sunday that she promises will be “very colourful” and fit with a pop-culture theme. It is set to be the biggest one-day athletics meeting in the world this year. It took a bit of convincing… but someone gave me one.”Įxactly a decade later and Sawyers, who produced a spectacular seven-metre jump to win at the European Indoor Championships in March, will be one of the headline acts at the London Athletics Meet on Sunday in front of what she calls an “unbeatable” 45,000-plus home crowd. Can I get my accreditation please?’ There is no reserve in the long-jump. “I told them, ‘I am the reserve for the long-jump. “I turned up anyway in my kit, and convinced them to give me an accreditation,” she says, grinning mischievously. The London Anniversary Games, however, had proved rather more challenging and would call for an even more resourceful solution. ![]() “I was entering competitions, posting videos of me doing back flips on Twitter – doing everything I could,” she says. She had already gone to extreme lengths 12 months earlier to secure every Olympic ticket possible, including for what she calls the “mind-blowing” experience of Super Saturday, when Jessica Ennis-Hill, Mo Farah and Greg Rutherford all struck gold in the space of 44 dizzying minutes. The year was 2013 and Sawyers, then one of the most promising teenage athletes in the country, was desperate to get inside London’s Olympic Stadium again to see her heroes in the flesh. Jazmin Sawyers is staring out through her chosen Zoom backdrop of the Big Brother diary room and, appropriately enough, there will be at least one candid confession. ![]()
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