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As long as I still feel a passion for the sport and preparing for these big competitions, I will carry on fighting.

I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.

If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.

If I was invincible, maybe I would take up some extreme sports.

First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.

Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.

I think you want to try every sport possible just to experience life.

I really like to win at sport.

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.