DAVID JONES: It was a glorious victory for Christine Ohuruogu, but doubts will always remain

Christine Ohuruogu: 'I won a gold and that's all that matters' Two years ago, fresh from her first major triumph – at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne – I spent an uplifting morning with the then littleknown Christine Ohuruogu. At her suggestion, we met at in a greasy spoon cafÈ near her family home in East London, and she obligingly posed for photographs on the building site that will become the Olympic focal point in 2012. With good exam grades and a degree in linguistics, Ohuruogu, who was born and raised with seven siblings within jogging distance of the new stadium, was clearly intelligent, driven and fiercely ambitious. She was also engaging and attractive, and as the daughter of hard-working Nigerian immigrants who seemed to embody all that was best about multi-cultural Britain, I ventured to suggest then that she... [read full story]