There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.

People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.

But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.

Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.

I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.

Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.