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.

Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding.

The Americans sowed the seed, and now they have reaped the whirlwind

The Paralympians have lifted the cloud of limitation.

We need to be confident. We need not to blink.

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.

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