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“I was ecstatic when we won - to host the Olympics is one of the biggest opportunities in living memory. It will help change the lives of young people and transform east London.” quote by Sebastian Coe — Download Open image

“I was ecstatic when we won - to host the Olympics is one of the biggest opportunities in living memory. It will help change the lives of young people and transform east London.”

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I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.

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I will go to my grave believing that participation is best driven by the well-stocked shop window.

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Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!

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I'm probably one of the few people who can say I did all three types of state sector schooling.

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

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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…

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Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing.

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