Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE teachers, but the teachers who helped me in sport because they had an understanding of what you were going through.

At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper.

I've always referred to my father as 'my coach' because we were always able to separate our relationship into the roles of coach and parent.

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