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Lauren Levern here, we're taking our summer break,

so until we're back on air, we're showcasing a few programs from our archive.

As usual, the music's been shortened for rights reasons.

This week's guest is Lord Koh, Sebastian Koh, the Olympic Gold Medalist and President of World

Athletics. Kirsty Young cast him away in 2009. My castaway this week is Sebastian Koh. From Olympic champion to

championing the Olympics, his continuous will to win has powered him through a life

tight-packed with drama and achievement. A multiple medal

winner on the athletics track, his style and grace as a middle distance runner, saw

him compare to Nurev. In his current role, delivering a successful Olympic Games to London in 2012, he might more

usefully be likened to Houdini.

The nature of success, he says, is entirely determined by the individual. There is always an opportunity to rise

above a given set of circumstances and make the world notice you. In being noticed of course Sebco you will also be judged. Does that hold no fear for you?

Not really, I guess that the nature of everything I did in track and field was judgment all the time.

So it tends to be the world I lived in and of course one of the, you know, the ultimate judgments was getting my UB 40 at 20 past 5 in a drafty sports

hall in cambourne in 1997 when politically a career finish so judgment is

has never been that far from me and the

certainty is the not of politics but certainly of you know the running track you know

where the finish line is you know the time pretty much that you've got to be.

Those certainties are not in place with 2012 because of course you've got an often fickle

public, a sometimes hostile press.

Those lines are always moving with 2012.

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