I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
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I really wanted to come into the Olympics.
And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know.
You learn a lot from your first Olympic Games experience. Everyone thinks they're prepared, but you never are.
I'd love to compete in the Summer Olympics.
I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
When I picked athletics, I knew I wanted to be an Olympic champion.
I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.
No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
When I chose athletics, I knew I wanted to be Olympic champion, and now I have done it in London.
I was ready in 2008 for the Olympic Games but unfortunately I missed the Kenyan trials with a thigh injury. I watched those Olympics but it was tough to watch. But it was good in the end because a Kenyan, Wilfred Bungei, was the champion.
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