Johnson furious despite qualifying
Britain's Jade Johnson was furious with herself despite qualifying for the Olympic long jump final by just two centimetres with her last attempt.
Johnson was way down the standings with jumps of 6.33m and 6.15m but produced a best of 6.61m with the penultimate leap of the entire competition to claim 11th place overall of the 12 qualifiers.
"Maybe tomorrow (Wednesday) I might be happy. I'm in the final but right now I'm still a bit mad with myself," said the 28-year-old, who saw former Olympic heptathlon champion Carolina Kluft qualify with 6.70m but world number one Naide Gomes of Portugal fail to advance.
She added: "I always make hard work of it, when have I ever had an easy ride? Never. Once I just accept that I'm never going to have an easy ride I'll be fine.
"But I think I've done the work, I've trained really well, I'm in great shape, it'll be easy this time and it never is. As long as I get that into my head I'm sure I'll be all right."
