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Records are there to be broken. Lots of people would love to swap their world record for an Olympic medal, but for me, my medals are there forever and ever, and that's what does it for me.

An Olympic medal is much better than a world record, and so is a world championship or Commonwealth Games medal.

I always try to do better than I have before, so I think it would be good to break the world record.

It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.

The Olympics are a world apart from racing for a record. You put out of your mind pretty much what anyone else doing in the race.

Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.

Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.

Being recognised by Guinness World Records in their 60th year is a real honour. It's also a real privilege for me to be positioned beside such sporting greats.