Words matter. These are the best Jade Jones Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think it’s when I won the Youth Olympics I thought, ‘I can really get gold in London.’
With taekwondo, anything can happen, really. You get bad days; you get good days of training, so you’ve just got to hope that you’re on it on your day.
Because I am Olympic champion, everyone assumes I am this perfect athlete who should never lose. Every time I step in the ring, I am expected to win.
To be the first British athlete to win a gold is amazing, but to win it in the U.K. is something else. Also, having my family here with me has made it extra special, and I know all my friends back home have been cheering me on and putting posters in their windows. I want to thank them all.
I now have Youth Olympic, Olympic and European Games titles, which is a dream. I didn’t fight that well and just scraped through a lot of the fights, but winning is a relief, and it’s more points towards the Rio Olympics, which takes a bit of pressure off me.
To have this gold medal around my neck is just bonkers and still hasn’t really sunk in.
The hunger has come back now because I want to be a double Olympic champion. I want to be a legend.
I had been thinking, ‘I’ve got to win because I’m Olympic champion’; actually, no, it’s, ‘I’m an Olympic champion for life,’ I can just enjoy the rest.
Winning the Olympics was an amazing feeling, but afterwards, it was a bit like, ‘What do I do now?’ So I lost a bit of motivation going back into training and competitions; I had so much pressure on me. I kept thinking, ‘I’m the Olympic champion. I can’t lose’ – being only 19 and having to deal with all that pressure.
Psychology is a big part of sport that some people do not realise. But it is a skill you have to practice.