The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)

Ennis-Hill hoping for doping-free worlds

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Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill remains hopeful London’s World Championsh­ips will not be tarnished by doping but warned any problems will not disappear overnight.

The 2012 Olympic heptathlon champion wants to see a clean summer as she prepares to collect her third World Championsh­ip gold.

Ennis-Hill , pictured, is due to receive heptathlon gold from Daegu 2011 after she was upgraded from silver when Tatyana Chernova was stripped of her title last November following a doping offence.

Jo Pavey is also in line to receive a 10,000 metres World Championsh­ip bronze from 2007 after she moved up from fourth last month when Turkish athlete Elvan Abeylegess­e retrospect­ively failed a doping test.

She is dueto join Ennis-Hill ata ceremony in London in AugustandE­nnis-Hill,who retired lastyear, hopesother­s will avoid their longwait.

“We have made massive steps to becoming a cleaner sport in the past year but there’s a lot that needs to be done,” she said.

“It’s not something that’s going to happen in a short amount of time. Hopefully we have a fantastic World Championsh­ips and we don’t have this case of three, four or five years down the line where people are having medals stripped off them.

“I hope as we continue with our sport over the next few years it just gets better and better.

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