This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual

Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.

I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.

The Paralympians have lifted the cloud of limitation.

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.

Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk.

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.