Katarina Johnson-Thompson takes first-day lead in Olympic heptathlon

Briton produces personal best of 14.44m in shot put She leads by 48 points from Nafissatou Thiam Can Katarina Johnson-Thompson banish her Olympic bogeyman? After a supremely relaxed ­performance on the first day of the women's ­heptathlon he should be quaking in his boots. Johnson-Thompson defied her injury-hit buildup to these Games to knockout season-bests in the high jump and 100m hurdles and a huge personal best in the shot put to place herself in pole position at the end of day one of the...