Britain's Kelly Sotherton a heptathlete again

Briton Kelly Sotherton has decided to switch back to heptathlon for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Almost exactly a year to the day after Great Britain's 2004 Olympic Games heptathlon bronze medallist Kelly Sotherton announced that she was switching from multi-events to concentrate on 400m running, she has reversed her decision.

Sotherton also won a bronze medal at the 2007 World Championships and the 34-year-old athlete took the silver medals in pentathlon at the 2005 and 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships.

Last winter she was also part of the British squad that took the silver medals in the 4x400m relay at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Paris.

"I started training four weeks ago for the heptathlon and it's rejuvenated my feelings for the sport," Sotherton told the British broadcaster Sky Sports. "I'm more motivated and enjoying the fact that next summer I could be in the Olympic heptathlon."

The 2009 World Championships and 2010 European Athletics Championships gold medallist Jessica Ennis is one of Team GB's biggest hopes for medal at nest summer's Olympic Games in London and Sotherton admitted that she does not expect to be challenging Ennis for a place on the podium at what will be her third Olympics.

"I don't think I'm going to be rivalling her, I possibly could have been a few years ago,I know where my limits lie, I am not striving for a gold medal. If the wind was blowing the right way and I get a light shot or there was no sand in the sandpit then I might [have a chance]," joked Sotherton.