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I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambitions.

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In 1981, I spoke at the Olympic Congress. I was scandalised that I was the first athlete to be given that chance. But I made the most of it.

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I joined the local athletics club when I was 12, that's what I did. I did it of my own volition.

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I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23. By any stretch of the imagination that's a very long apprenticeship.

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Good running is the ability to have a very well defined on-board computer. The ability to judge distances when running in traffic.

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You hope all good athletes run on the balls of their feet. You don't want them coming down heel first. The perfect style is the foot to come down with a slight supination and on a tilt to the outside.

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The Olympics are a world apart from racing for a record. You put out of your mind pretty much what anyone else doing in the race.

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Marathons don't come to you overnight.

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In all Games, there is always a tendency, particularly in the lead up to the Games when there isn't much sport to talk about, to write about things that are not sport.

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We have to recognise there are very few countries you will take the Games to where somebody doesn't have issues on foreign or domestic policy.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: September 29th, 1956

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