Hello, welcome back to the show. As I'm sure you're aware, the Olympics is in full flight.

For those of you who've been watching, you will I'm sure have seen Michael Johnson, the 1996

double Olympic gold medal winning pin up as part of the BBC's commentary team. He is a wise man.

He is an athletics legend.

And I spoke to him a while back.

And I am re-releasing our conversation

to Mark the Olympic Games.

Enjoy. Morning Michael, how are you?

Looking very dapper.

I often have very successful sports people on,

but to have, I think, someone who's in that very rare bracket of being

one of the greatest in a truly global sport what's it like then to be in that bracket of the greats

i think the perspective is different for an athlete than it is for someone who hasn't actually

been in that space of professional Olympic athletes. I think,

you know, we certainly can appreciate when you're in that space that, you know, you're

heralded as, you know, being in that, you know, elite space, best of the best. But I think

from most athletes' perspective, certainly from my perspective, it's, you know, you have your dream and it's very personal to you.

And once you accomplish that, you know, by getting into that space, then it's a tremendous sense of a personal accomplishment and achievement.

And then, of course, you know, you have so much respect for all athletes,

so you can respect that, you know, there are some great athletes that you've probably seen

or, you know, heard about, read about, and now being mentioned with those athletes is a fantastic

privilege. But I think the perspective is a bit different. It's just more

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