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I want to win a gold medal in London.

Getting the Games for London has been the fulfilment of a dream. It is one which I truly believe can change the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people for the better. But in the end, nothing can quite compare with winning your first Olympic gold medal.

I was only 18 and I'd be 22 if I was competing at London. I'm stronger and more experienced and I know I would have won gold.

Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.

To win Olympic gold has been a dream for me for seven or eight years now, so it was amazing to actually achieve that.

I don't know where my first gold medal is.

When I chose athletics, I knew I wanted to be Olympic champion, and now I have done it in London.

London was the hardest Olympic Games, and before it, I was really just hoping to win a medal, even if it was not the gold medal. At the same time, I have my next target. I am not settling for three golds in a row. I now want to try for a fourth.

London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.

It's not always about gold medals, I think. It has to be about development, and we are missing that in U.K. at the moment.