The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.

If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium tonight is a sad night for athletics.

You have to be positive and I'm not just talking about athletics this also applies to life.

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams but that's another story.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic so that came naturally to me.

I was not particularly bright I wasn't very athletic I was a little too tall odd funny looking I was just really weird as a kid.

I grew up in an non-athletic family where my parents were interested in music in literature in education and art.

Am I athletic? In my dreams.