Lord Sebastian Coe: Reflections on London 2012 - The Power of Opportunity

"This was such a personal story that I had to convey about the 11 year old (me), the inspiration of two teachers in my city of Sheffield, who won medals in the Mexico Games, the inspiration for me to go and join an athletics club... and I wanted my story. Not because it was my story, but because I genuinely felt that it was the template that the Games would adopt for so many kids like me. And so that's all I really did. I told a story..."

"I wrote the speech longhand, with a fountain pen at the side of our hotel pool in Singapore at four o'clock in the morning, and the words flowed very easily.."

On the 10th anniversary of London 2012, the Olympics and Paralympics that shook Great Britain and the World, Greenhouse Sports ambassador Lord Sebastian Coe speaks openly and candidly to This Is My Playbook about:

• the deeply personal story and 4am inspiration that delivered the winning bid speech for London
• Investment in sport - participation and elite - is the best social policy you'll ever need
• his frustration at government still failing to grasp this as a bedrock for health and wellbeing, education, especially in challenged communities
• teachers and coaches as natural catalysts to unlock the power of opportunity.

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