That was the worst race we could have asked for.

He’s best male athlete that we have got, he’s clearly world class.

They had said to us they couldn’t name him in the 1500 if he didn’t run the 1500 at the trials, but they’ve said ‘we’ll accept he’s good enough’.

They haven’t decided yet. It’s not really the No. 1 thing on their mind.

He’s still a hero. It’s just a really hollow feeling because he didn’t get to test out all the work he had done.

The European circuit is the centre of athletics and, as an example, when you are running in Zurich, you never get introduced to the crowd as the Commonwealth champion.

He’s just looking forward to having a run around in Australia, as a bit of a guide to see how he’s feeling.

I told him they were tough and they wouldn’t have given up like he had. I then told him that if he didn’t win his next race in New York then he shouldn’t bother coming...

He hasn’t looked back since then (the Stanford disaster).