MUM'S THE WORD

Jess helped birth a new movement in sport

- ALEX SPINK

ON HER flight into Budapest Jess Ennis-Hill saw a face she knew well and did a double take.

In the arms of Shaunae Miller-Uibo, 400m champion of the world, was a baby boy.

The Bahamian, winner of the last two Olympics, gave birth to Maicel in April.

Four months later, 122 days to be exact, she was in Hungary to defend her title.

Ennis-Hill's mind went back to 2014 and that winter morning on which news of her first pregnancy was met with doubt that she would return to top-level competition.

"There weren't many athletes out there who had done it," said the heptathlon legend. "There was no one I could really speak to about it. It was the biggest challenge I ever faced." Nine years on it seems almost commonplace.