Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.

Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

Coming over to Europe you can always put on weight really easily because you are not doing your normal routine at home. It is just a bit more discipline and not eating breads and pastas which are my favourite foods in the entire world.

My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.

I imagine these two girls next to me every time single time I'm going over those hurdles in training.