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We want to make sure our athletes have a future once their athletics careers are over.

Athletics keeps us healthy, gets us up and running around. It also gives you an opportunity to meet a lot of different people, which is very important.

For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.

It is so important that our federation stands by our athletes.

I think we can be competitive on and off the field and create a model where our athletes are scholars and learners, too.

As athletes, our job is to train and compete.

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.

The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete.

We're focusing on producing top, great athletes for the Olympics.

I want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.