I might have to consider coaching- I'm getting too old to be a world class runner and my mind isn't gone enough to become an official.

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

I might have to consider coaching- I'm getting too old to be a world class runner and my mind isn't gone enough to become an official.

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

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.

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.