Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

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.

The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.

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.

When we stage the Olympics it will inspire kids all over the country. A kid in Scotland or Ireland will be encouraged to take up sport.

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