Im not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world.

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.

World records are only borrowed.

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

Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.

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.

To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.