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I am a sportsman, and I hate politics.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Sportsman
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Belief is such an important aspect of sport.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Aspect
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The IOC are the guardians of the Olympic ideal.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Guardians
Ideal
Olympic
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You can be even fitter at 60 than you were at 20.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Fitter
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Dai Greene will be our greatest-ever Welsh athlete.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Athlete
Welsh
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It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Athlete
Lessons
Life Lesson
Winning
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When you win, suddenly this celebrity status is hoisted upon you.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Celebrity Status
Status
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We're focusing on producing top, great athletes for the Olympics.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Olympics
Athletes
Focusing
Producing
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It's not a bad idea to have gossip and talking points in athletics.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Athletics
Gossip
Bad Idea
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Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Life
Sports
Athlete
Losing
Sport
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My sporting heroes were Ken Jones, Stanley Matthews, and Cliff Morgan.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Stanley
Cliff
Morgan
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We must have PE teachers and coaches who are well trained and qualified.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Coaches
Qualified
Trained
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As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Sports
Ambition
Athlete
Enjoyed
Sportsman
Sport
Youngster
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Athletes peak for the Olympic Games and can take months to get back up to that level.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Olympic Games
Athletes
Back Up
Olympic
Peak
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It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Athlete
Coaches
Following
Coach
Unthinkingly
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You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Sports
Athlete
Succeed
Want
Disciplined
Sport
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It's important for me that I stay in shape, although each year it gets a little harder.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Each Year
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It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Achieve
Athlete
Enough
Keys
Long
Perseverance
Long Your Enough
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One of the top political issues of the day is how to combat young people not being active anymore.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Active
Combat
Political Issues
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We have to harness the Olympic experience and this inspiration young people have to get into sport.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Harness
Experience People Young
Olympic
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When you win an Olympic gold, it is such a powerful feeling that stays with you for the rest of your life.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Gold
Powerful
Life Your Rest
Rest
Feeling
Olympic
Olympic Gold
Stays
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Long jumping sounds simple - you run fast and jump well. But it is about getting all the technical bits right.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Bits
Jump
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To win an Olympic title when there are 205 nations taking part, you have to be super-human. You have to be superman.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Olympic
Title
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I felt I was never going to beat Igor Ter-Ovanesyan or Ralph Boston because they were the joint world record holders.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Boston
Joint
Ralph
World Record
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If athletes are found to have taken performance enhancing drugs, then they should be banned for two years, even if they are British.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Banned
Athletes
Enhancing
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One of our targets as a country is to now work very closely with the Commonwealth countries - they could become a very big market for us.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Commonwealth
Closely
Targets
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There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Sports
Athlete
Live Your Life
Valuable
Life Best Learning
Overcome
Sport
Hurdles
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I saw what politics did to the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and I would defend the right of a sportsman to go and play and perform where they want.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Olympic Games
Sportsman
Defend
Olympic
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People need to have clear goals about why they are exercising, and they should consult a fitness expert to find out what kind of exercise is suitable.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Fitness
Suitable
Consult
Exercising
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If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Athlete
Developing
Helping
Skills
Way
Achieving
Alongside
Coach
Participant
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I had jumped about 6.40 metres with no training, no run-up, and certainly no skill, when this big, good-looking guy came up to me and told me I could be great.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Great Me Training
Good-Looking
Skill
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The reception and the welcome home was quite overwhelming but an indication of how much the Welsh people valued my winning in the Olympics - it was a great memory.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Indication
Olympics
Overwhelming
Reception
Welcome
Welcome Home
Valued
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There are a lot of kids coming in to athletics, but there is also a big drop-out rate. We've got it right at the top end, but we have to maintain the base of the pyramid.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Athletics
Rate
Base
Drop-Out
Maintain
Pyramid
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Success in sport is based on you thinking you are doing something to gain that edge, but if I wanted that little bit extra, I would go and run up sand dunes at Merthyr Mawr.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Sand
Edge
Extra
Gain
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I still do cardiovascular exercises, aerobic exercises, and then strength training, as it's important to keep your muscle strength, as every decade you lose about 10% of this.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Cardiovascular
Training
Muscle
Aerobic
Decade
Exercises
Lose
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U.K. Athletics needs to develop a financial independence so it no longer has to be subject to the whim of politicians. If you are reliant on government, there is a big problem.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Independence
Athletics
Whim
Big Problem
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It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Athlete
Knowing
Practise
Skills
Eventually
Initially
Techniques
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People like Ellie Simmonds, David Weir, and Hannah Cockroft have become superstars alongside the likes of Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis. I think it has changed attitudes to disability.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Disability
Jessica
Likes
Alongside
Attitudes
David
People Think Like
Hannah
Superstars
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It was not about the guy who could jump the furthest; it was about the guy who could jump the furthest on that particular day in the worst conditions of any Olympic long jump final.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Conditions
Final
Furthest
Jump
Olympic
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The important thing for the future is that our schools and clubs have more and better coaches and teachers to ensure that all that enthusiasm, spirit and talent is harnessed and developed.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Clubs
Coaches
Enthusiasm
Developed
Ensure
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You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Athlete
Boards
Involved
Process
Actively
Board
Carefully
Coach
Implement
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It is almost impossible to divorce sport from politics, but sport is such a positive factor in today's society - there is nothing else which will bring so many people together in that atmosphere.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Atmosphere
Divorce
Factor
So Many People
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There's so much hard work, dedication, and focus goes in from not just the athletes but from the coaches, officials, governing bodies, and Sport Wales. It's a real team effort, and it's rightly called Team Wales.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Coaches
Dedication
Effort
Focus
Governing
Hard Work
Officials
Real
Team
Team Effort
Wales
Work Hard Work Dedication
Athletes
Bodies
Sport
Goes
Rightly
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I played rugby in the winter, cricket in the summer, and for a brief period was on the books at Cardiff City. Athletics was only sports day for me. In fact, I never really liked it. I was never too keen on a sport that didn't have a ball at your feet.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Sports
Athletics
Cricket
Feet
Rugby
Summer
Winter
Played
Books
Ball
Brief
City
Liked
Period
Sport
Fact
In Fact
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I think a four-year ban would effectively rule out one Olympic games - a life ban is too harsh. I think everyone deserves a second chance. If you come back from missing one Olympic games and serving a four-year ban, you are a pretty determined and reformed character.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Determined
Harsh
Missing
Olympic Games
Second Chance
Serving
Ban
Effectively
Four-Year
Olympic
Reformed
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I remember one of my first international trips to Poland. After a long, tortuous journey, we arrived at the hotel exhausted but without the team management, who had gone ahead of us from the airport in cars, checked into the best rooms, and left us with what was left.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Journey
Exhausted
Hotel
International
Management
Poland
Rooms
Ahead
Airport
Checked
Tortuous
Trips
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I believe the friendship of the Games still exists. There is a tremendous camaraderie and atmosphere at the Olympic and Commonwealth Games - where else could you go and sit down and have breakfast with a Russian weightlifter, an East German sprinter, and an Indian fencer and talk about different cultures and problems?
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Friendship
Atmosphere
Breakfast
Camaraderie
Commonwealth
Different Cultures
Indian
German
Tremendous
Cultures
Exists
Olympic
Russian
Sprinter
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I am delighted that Jason Gardener will be taking over from me as President of U.K. Athletics. With his competitive background in the sport as an Olympic champion coupled with his engaging personality and his experience as a board member of U.K. Athletics, he possesses all the qualities required to be a successful president.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Athletics
Champion
Delighted
Engaging
Gardener
Jason
President
Successful
Background
Board
Competitive
Coupled
Sport
Member
Olympic
Possesses
Qualities
Required
Taking
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The Cardiff Half Marathon has already proved itself to be one of the biggest and best road races in the U.K., and when the best athletes in the world run on the same course, the times should be spectacular. But the real beauty of this event is that ordinary runners get the chance to line up on the same start line as the best athletes in the world.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Marathon
Ordinary
Real Beauty
Runners
Spectacular
Athletes
Event
Proved
Races
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