Kirsty Young talks to the Olympic gold medallist and president of World Athletics Sebastian Coe in a programme first broadcast in 2009.
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This week's guest is Lord Ko.
Sebastian Ko, the Olympic gold medalist and president of world athletics Kirsty Young cast him away in 2009.
My castaway this week is Sebastian Ko.
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 compared to Nureyev.
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, Sebko, 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 05:20 in a drafty sports hall in Cambourne in 1997, when politically, a career finish.
So judgment is, has never been that far from me.