If you lived in Sheffield and were called Sebastian, you had to learn to run fast at a very early stage.

There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city.

Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.

I believed that we had to answer the question: Why are we doing this? And it wasn’t until we started to articulate, internally as an organisation, that it was about using the Games to inspire young people to participate in sports that we each understood what we had to do.

I might have to consider coaching- I'm getting too old to be a world class runner and my mind isn't gone enough to become an official.

World records are only borrowed.

Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!