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.

The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise.

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.