STIMPSON: MEDAL IS FOR EVERYONE
Jodie Stimpson 述べるd 行方不明の out on the London Olympics as "the kick up the backside I needed" after winning the first gold メダル of the 連邦／共和国 Games in Glasgow.
In a dream start to Team England's （選挙などの）運動をする, 25-year-old Stimpson sprinted to victory at Strathclyde Country Park while team-mate Vicky Holland took a surprise bronze behind Canada's Kirsten Sweetland.
Stimpson went into the race as the 最高の，を越す-階級d 競技者 and 正当化するd that position with a 命令（する）ing 業績／成果, pulling away from Sweetland over the の近くにing 500 metres of the race.
It was all a far cry from 2012, when Stimpson was distraught at 存在 left out of the 広大な／多数の／重要な Britain team for London, and was one of a number of critics of British Triathlon's domestique 政策.
Holland and Lucy Hall, who finished 11th in Glasgow, were 選ぶd to support then world 支持する／優勝者 Helen Jenkins.
Stimpson said: "I didn't 会合，会う the 基準 for London, so it wasn't my 位置／汚点／見つけ出す.
"明白に, I was 荒廃させるd to 行方不明になる a home Olympics. But that gave me the kick up the backside that I needed.
"I changed coach and it did wonders. Me and Darren Smith have worked so hard ever since.
"It's 絶対 fantastic. This メダル is not just 地雷, it's for all my family and friends and Darren. Thank you so much. This メダル is yours."
Stimpson credits linking up with renowned Australian coach Smith as the turning point in her career and her results have certainly taken off.
The 計画（する） of the England trio had been to make it a hard rac e over a 堅い course to try to 避ける all the favourites still 存在 there on the run.
にもかかわらず the absence of Welsh world 支持する／優勝者 非，不，無 Stanford and Jenkins through 傷害, it was still a strong field.
Coming out of the 1.5 kilometre swim in Strathclyde Loch, England held the first three positions but their 競争相手s were all there too.
Hall 簡潔に tried a 脱退／分離 on the 40km bike but was pulled 支援する and a group of 10 began the 10km run together.
That quickly became six, with Stimpson, Sweetland and Australia's Emma Jackson 押し進めるing the pace while Holland, Andrea Hewitt of New Zealand and Northern Ireland's Aileen Reid stayed with them.
Reid was the first to 割れ目 at the end of the penultimate （競技場の）トラック一周 and a kick by Stimpson got rid of the dangerous Jackson and Hewitt - the bronze medallist in 2006.
Holland held on until around a kilometre to go, but by then she had already 安全な・保証するd a メダル.
Stimpson, from Oldbury in the West Midlands, 証明するd to be the strongest in the end and did not 緩和する up until she had crossed the line
"I wouldn't say it was comfortable," she said with a chuckle. "I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to run out solid but everybody else was, too.
"I was not 推定する／予想するing that many to stay with us but when it's a big 選手権s everybody leaves it all out there.
"It broke up on the last （競技場の）トラック一周 and I thought, '権利, this is it, give it all you have got'. On the final downhill, it was a 事例／患者 of all or nothing. And it paid off."
Holland, from Gloucester, has never been on the podium in a world series race and 宣言するd it the best result of her career.
"I'm a bit 圧倒するd but that was the 最高の，を越す result I could have got," she said.
"I felt in 支配（する）／統制する throughout the run and when my 脚s started to fail me with about a kilometre to go I must have turned around 15 times to check no-one was coming up behind me. It just felt the longest stretch of road in the world.
"It feels very poetic to 勝利，勝つ the first メダルs of the Games. You dream about this, and to get a メダル with Jodie makes it even more fantastic."
Hall, 22, is not a strong 走者 and was 扱う／治療するd in the 医療の テント at the finish after appearing to overheat on the run.
The メダルs were England's first in triathlon at the 連邦／共和国s and 始める，決める the team up for a 可能性のある clean sweep of the golds ahead of the men's race on Thursday afternoon and the mixed relay on Saturday.
