We'd already put his name next to a gold medal.

They must say exactly what they saw here. In their reports I want them to tell me that they can improve, for example, the hockey teams, if certain things are put in place.

I just want to say thanks very much Graeme Smith for that wonderful win.

We are here to compete, we will compete fair and square, and we will go home with loads and loads of medals.

Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.

When first presented with the jumble of the periodic table, I scanned for mercury and couldn't find it. It is there - between gold, which is also dense and soft, and thallium, which is also poisonous. But the symbol for mercury, Hg, consists of two letters that don't even appear in its name.