Sports saved my life.

Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle.

I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.

If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.

My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports.

It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?