5 live Breakfast's Olympic Diaries
5 live Breakfast is following two of Britain's top athletes on their journey to the London Olympics in 2012. They are Andy Turner and Mo Farah - two very different athletes with two different stories, both driven by the aim of stepping on the podium in London.
Turner - 110m Hurdles
Andy Turner is Britain's number one sprint hurdler and has been for four years. He has two Olympic games under him already. In 2004 in Athens he failed to get past the heats, and in Beijing 2008 he was knocked out in the quarter finals. This led to UK Athletics scrapping his funding as they felt he was no longer a threat on the world stage.
Turner has since won the 110m hurdles at the 2009 European Team Championships and said he intends to prove to UK Athletics that he can compete at the highest level.
Hear his first audio diary:
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Farah - 5,000m/Cross Country
Mo Farah is regarded as one of the best British middle distance runners in recent years. He was born in Mogadishu but moved to Britain from Somalia as a refugee in 1993 where his talent for running was soon spotted by his PE teacher. He'd soon won five schools titles.
In 2006 Mo Farah was named as "Male Athlete of the Year" by the British Athletics Writers' Association. He followed that accolade with his greatest triumph, winning the European Cross-country title in December. Earlier this year he won Gold in the 3000m in European Indoor Championships.
He's now a genuine medal hope for the World Championships and beyond. He is funded to the maximum amount by UK Athletics.
Hear Mo's first audio diary:
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there are too many athletes on the lottery money gravy train it should only go to the ones who step up to the plate and deliver the goods the majority of the money should be going to young athletes who have a chace of becomeing the future stars instead of going with the tired and tested lot who fail all the time there should be a minimum amount for each athlete and it should be incentive based if they dont show progress then they should get nothing
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another 2 years of bbc olympics hype ..
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As a british somali, I am very proud of Mo Farah and other british athletes.
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