Be who you are in every situation.

Be who you are in every situation.

I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.

On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one.

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.