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

The Paralympians have lifted the cloud of limitation.

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

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.

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.

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

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.