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" I started daily training at the age of 14. When I was 16 years old, I was running twice a day. "

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" At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper. "

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" I can remember the day I decided I would retire from competitive athletics as vividly as if it were yesterday. "

" I've never sent an email in my life. My kids laugh. I often hand the phone to them and say, 'Can you text this message to somebody.' I don't even have a computer on my desk. "

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" My mother was Indian, brought up in Delhi. My grandparents were born in Bow and Poplar. "

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

" My mum was critical in getting me to recognise very early on that although what I was doing was pretty serious, quite selfish, and probably to most people pretty obsessive, there actually was more to life than running quickly twice round a track. "

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