Jessica Ennis-Hill is favourite to retain the title she won at London 2012 but she is expected to face stiff competition from compatriot Katarina Johnson-Thompson at the Rio Olympics.

Team GB and Team USA already have a slew of medals under their belt, but as these adorable photographs show, each and every one of our Olympians had to start somewhere.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson has not improved her heptathlon personal best since 2014. Senior figures in British Athletics would like her to part company with long-time coach Mike Holmes and leave Liverpool.

DALEY THOMPSON: The achievement of Jessica Ennis-Hill in winning back-to-back medals in the Olympic heptathlon places her alongside the best British athletes in history.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson has been ruled out of the Indoor Grand Prix but is expected to be fit for the European Indoor Championships after suffering a minor hamstring strain.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson registered a season-best throw of 41.72 metres but it was only good enough for 20th place as her heptathlon hopes took a hit on Sunday afternoon.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson insists she has no plans to switch away from heptathlon to jumping events - but has indicated she is open to contesting a decathlon before the close of her career.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Two gold medals tell a story of potential being fulfilled, but there has also been a painful loss. Her father, Ricky Thompson, died last November.

On the basis of her impressive performances in winning a European heptathlon silver medal in Berlin this week, the odds are finally shortening on her one day finding a way past Nafi Thiam.

It says something about her complex psychology that Katarina Johnson-Thompson arrived to a headliner's billing in an Austrian mountain town on Friday and found it all rather strange.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI IN GOTZIS: Perhaps she was being a little harsh on herself. Having admitted that she still feels like an 'impostor' at the highest level, she made a mockery of her words.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Katarina Johnson-Thompson is talking about recognition and the time it can take for some folk to see what is so clear to others.

Leading athletes from Team GB have taken the extraordinary step of launching legal action against the British Olympic Association over 'ridiculous' marketing rules.

INTERVIEW BY LAURA LAMBERT: While people are tucking into mince pies and turkey on Christmas Day, Katarina Johnson-Thompson will be out on the track, determined to get the edge on her rivals.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: I'll tell you one that surprised me - it was a message from my language tutor,' says Katarina Johnson-Thompson.

Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Greece's Katerina Stefanidi said athletes felt forced to continue training despite the health risks because Olympic chiefs say the Games will still go ahead.

One Direction stars Niall Horan and Harry Styles were two of the celeb fans who posted heartfelt tributes to the star on social media as the news broke.

Adele showed she can nail any musical performance as she channelled her inner Nicki Minaj during a raucous rap performance in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

Nicki Minaj dropped a music video for her new song Megatron, after promoting the track on social media for weeks.

Dupri said he was simply adding on to an ongoing discussion in regards to the image and content of contemporary female rap artists.

Nicki Minaj shared a new trailer for Angry Birds 2 that features more of her character than any other. She plays Pinky in the upcoming sequel, a bird who speaks in the English accent she's used before.

Nicki Minaj suggested she was pregnant and engaged to her boyfriend Kenneth Petty on a track released Friday. He's a registered sex offender and pleased guilty to manslaughter in 2006.

Nicki Minaj hit back at naysayers who have been slamming her for dating convicted felon Kenneth 'Zoo' Petty: 'How f***ing dare you talk about lowering standards.'

Chance the Rapper confessed to Nicki Minaj on her radio show that his wife saved his life by becoming celibate while the two were estranged. They subsequently married earlier this year.

The rapper, 36, sparked a fan frenzy when she changed her Twitter bio to Mrs Petty on Friday, two weeks after obtaining a marriage licence from Beverly Hills courthouse.

Almost a year after Cardi B threw a shoe at Nicki Minaj during New York Fashion Week, their closest friends are rekindling the feud.Cardi's best friend Star Brim, 27, wasn't there to defend her pal from

The 36-year-old hip-hop star looks the other way when it comes to the 41-year-old registered sex offender's two prison stints

Nicki Minaj put on a sizzling display to celebrate the release of her Hot Girl Summer music video, on Tuesday. The Barbie Dreams hitmaker shared videos to Instagram in a plunging white dress.

Nicki Minaj has announced she is retiring from her music career to start a family, according to a tweet posted on Thursday morning. 

Donald Trump super fans have shown how loyal they are to the president by marking their bodies with some unusual inkings including lower back artwork mimicking Nicki Minaj and on a mail item.

When stopping by season six of The Real in LA on Monday, the 40-year-old TV star revealed there is plenty of sibling rivalry in her family.

Nicki Minaj brought her hunky fiance, manslaughter convict Kenneth Petty, to a Beverly Hills party for her Fendi collaboration on Tuesday.

The rapper, 36, exchanged vows with Petty in front of 'several family members' at a private Los Angeles home on Monday, TMZ reports.

Bling alert: Newly married Nicki Minaj was seen in a gallery of images and video on her Instagram with her husband flaunting their gigantic new rocks in Halloween costumes.

Nicki Minaj's fans-The Barbz-are known for quickly jumping to conclusions on social media. And Wednesday night the 36-year-old got her fans worked up when she tweeted 'expecting a'

The 36-year-old hit back at the 'vicious'chat show host, 55, on Friday's episode of her own Queen Radio show, saying: 'I didn't know that in our society, you have to be plagued by your past.'

The Anaconda singer also paid tribute to her late friend and tour mate Juice WRLD, days after his death at 21 amid a seizure while at Midway Airport in Chicago.

The 37-year-old singer showcased her curvy figure in a skin-tight top with matching bottoms while heading into Mr. Jones with new hubby, Kenneth 'Zoo' Petty.

Meghan Trainor dropped a music video for the song Nice to Meet Ya featuring Nicki Minaj off her new album, Treat Myself, on Friday.

Listeners called the Anaconda rapper out as disrespectful after using the lyrics: 'All you b*****s Rosa Parks, uh oh, get your a** up' in the forthcoming track, tentatively titled Yikes.

The 37-year-old rapper dished that she's trying to lay low from such a public lifestyle after marrying childhood friend and sex offender Kenneth Petty late last year.

The rapper, 37, was bemused after discovering a porn site uploaded her Instagram video with the caption, ''Juicy Thick Trinidadian Twerking'.

Nicki Minaj shared a video to Instagram on Sunday of her husband Kenneth Petty rubbing her stomach during a flight to Trinidad. The cryptic video prompted speculation over Minaj expecting a child.

Petty was in federal court after turning himself into the Marshals, and is set to face a judge later today, according to TMZ .

Nastya Nass - a self proclaimed 'twerk icon' with nearly 7million followers - shared video of one of her boisterous classes at the Miami Beach Senior High School gym on February 28.

Wendy Williams added fuel to her feud with rapper Nicki Minaj during a taping of her talk show on Tuesday by taunting her about the rapper's 'sex offender' husband.

Matthew 'Matty J' Johnson, his fiancée Laura Byrne and their nine-month-old daughter Marlie-Mae are currently in lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Nicki Minaj set her fanbase and Twitter in general ablaze on Thursday, when she responded to multiple fans asking her rather pointed questions about being pregnant.

In a bid to clear his paedophile father Tom's name, Leo demands that Whitney, who was trying to make things right with her ex-boyfriend, says she lied about the sexual abuse she suffered from Tony.

EastEnders first look spoiler pictures show Callum Highway bound and gagged during his kidnap ordeal amid Keanu Taylor's explosive revenge plot against the Mitchells.