Retired British heptathlete Kelly Sotherton looked forward to receiving her third Olympic medal on Thursday, a decade on from the Beijing 2008 Games.
Sotherton finished fifth in Beijing but moved up after Ukraine's Liudmyla Blonska and Russia's Tatiana Chernova were disqualified for doping, the latter only last year after a sample was re-tested.
"Until I have the medal I don't really know how I'm feeling," said Sotherton, 41, ahead of the formal presentation at the award ceremony Team GB Ball where British athletes gathered to celebrate their wins during the Games.
Kelly Sotherton (2nd R) and her teammates receive the women's 4x400m relay Beijing Olympic Games bronze medals which were retro-awarded to the team during day one of the Muller Anniversary Games in London, England, July 21, 2018. /VCG Photo
"The 4x400m medal in the summer was great but I trained as a heptathlete and that's the medal that I really want and it will mean quite a lot to get it."
Thursday's ceremony was the second time a Beijing medal has been handed retrospectively to Sotherton after Chernova's disqualification.
"It'll close a chapter of my athletics career," said Sotherton.
"Receiving a medal 10 years after I should have got it is a little bittersweet but it indicates the career I had and it will finally confirm me as a three-time Olympic medalist."
In conclusion, her three Olympic medals are: heptathlon bronze medal during the 2004 Athens Summer Olympic Games, another bronze during the 2008 Beijing Games, and being part of the bronze medal winning team in the women's 4X400m relay in Beijing.