Kate O’Connor: How a Northern Irish Heptathlon Sensation Became the World’s Briefest Morale Boost
Kate O’Connor, the 23-year-old Northern Irish heptathlete who just out-jumped, out-threw, and out-run the rest of humanity at the European Combined Events Cup in the Estonian capital of Tallinn, is currently being hailed in the global press as “the next Jessica Ennis-Hill.” That’s sportswriter code for “please don’t notice we recycled this headline in 2016,…