Monday, 26 January 2015

Take a few minutes to check your facts......

Recently I was at the Northern Athletics Senior Indoor Championships at the EIS, Sheffield where I captured Katarina Johnson-Thompson breaking the Championship record with 6.63m in the long jump.  Her good start to 2015 prompted many articles, one of which claimed:

"...And, clearly, it has helped.  Body and mind fully refreshed, Johnson-Thompson returned to action with a bang at the Northern Indoor Championships in Sheffield last weekend, smashing her 2014 best in the long jump and equaling [sic] her PB in the 60m hurdles. That it was all done in Jess Ennis-Hill's hometown won't have been lost on anyone..."

Anyone with access to an internet search engine would have soon seen that her 6.63m was good but still well short of her 6.92m set in Glasgow on 11th July 2014.  (And that was confirmed by the IAAF not just Wikipedia......).  Cue one vacancy in the Copy department?  

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