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

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

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.

Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.

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.

It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise.

The Paralympians have lifted the cloud of limitation.