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“Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.”

Sebastian Coe

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Marathons don't come to you overnight.

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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,…

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Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the…

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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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