Greg Rutherford Wants Super Saturday

 

Greg Rutherford is relishing the chance to recreate another Super Saturday alongside Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis-Hill at the Rio Olympics and thinks the trio can pull it off. The 29years old was the unsung hero four years ago as he landed long jump gold in between Ennis-Hill's heptathlon triumph and Farah's 10,000 metres victory.

The other two hogged the headlines, while Rutherford even found his performance branded a fluke and the barbed comments stung. His form over the last three years, though, has silenced even the fiercest of critics - four major titles contested, four won and, with Saturday's schedule at Rio's Olympic Stadium offering the chance of a repeat, Rutherford is more than happy to share the stage again with his heralded team-mates.

He said “It would be fantastic if it does happen again, It would be another momentous occasion in British athletics history. We've all worked really hard to get here. I'm in very good shape myself and I believe the other two are in fantastic shape too. So it's very, very possible. We have all come here to win. It Super Saturday is the greatest sporting achievement in my career. I have no regrets on anything in how it played out. If it wasn't for the other two I was sandwiched between, it wouldn't have been Super Saturday, so in actual fact I'm very thankful I was in between two of Britain's greatest athletes. On Saturday we are hoping to replicate that, that would be very special. We've know each other for very long time.”