The Olympic Games is the ultimate level of competition.

Everyone else is running around with Commonwealth Games medals. My wife's had two of them.

But we tried our best. We had a very difficult competition, five very tough games in 10-12 days.

It's probably a step up in terms of competition and number of games. And we're bringing a couple of attractive teams from afar.

We're excited about this competition and looking forward to some big games.

To say that there was hard competition and therefore excusing him, excuses him from doing his job. If there is difficult competition, it is his job to compete.