The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.

I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse and he's one of my heroes so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable and they've got brains the size of golf balls.

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

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.

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

The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world.

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.