Thankfully, I found athletics. My mum didn't like it at first, but the funny thing is that, now, she's the biggest athletics fan out there. She's a real expert, and she's got all the heptathlon books.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was one of those kids who, everything I tried sports-related, I liked.
I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young.
I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.
I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running.
I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
The great thing about athletics is that it's like poker sometimes: you know what's in your hand, and it may be a load of rubbish, but you've got to keep up the front.
I do like all different kinds of sports and stuff. I've taken up gymnastics and slacklining - you know, tightroping, basically.
Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it.
I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.