We want to promote the great quality of athletics - and maintain it's integrity - all over the world.

Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.

In Cuba we use our champions to promote the sport.

If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.

I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.

I am always fighting inside the Council to get the message across that at each competition venue, we should send somebody to inspect and to make sure the athletes will be looked after in a correct manner.

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.