I grew up watching the Olympics and did some athletics for my school, winning the Welsh pentathlon championship.
The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain.
In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'
I was an average student, who took active interest in athletics.
I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.
We want to promote the great qualities of athletics - and maintain its integrity - all over the world.
We want to make sure our athletes have a future once their athletics careers are over.
We do not use managers, we are the representatives of our athletes, and that is why I am deeply involved in athletics, I follow our athletes careers from start to finish, 100% all the way.
In England I played everything - swimming, athletics, football, rugby, badminton, cricket - all of that stuff. I was in the first teams for all the sports at Brighton, played on the wing in rugby, and ran 100m, 200m, 400m, and did long jump and even the javelin at one point. In the States I did a bit of track, but mainly I was there for the boxing.
Athletics and physical activity are important parts of youth development, in my experience and view.
