It takes an overwhelming amount of time, energy, and money to raise children, in general, not to mention the next generation of athletes.
We figured that the best way of exploring Colm's role as an athletics coach would be to follow his progress with the next generation of athletes coming through his junior training camps, held every April and December.
"It's going to take another generation of athletes before we can get over it, probably".
This year, the Olympics and Paralympics inspired a new generation of athletes.
If environmental and other issues hinder performances in Beijing, he said, "you will have damaged a whole generation of athletes".
Asked if he has realised his dream of engineering a new golden generation of athletes, he nodded.
Four years later and Van Commenee believes Britain is about to witness a new golden generation of athletes, this one possibly even better than the last.
If Mitchell and others are serious about sending a positive message to a younger generation of athletes, they should reconsider the gender biases at work in these decisions.
The New Sound of Olympic Figure Skating To draw in a new generation of athletes and spectators, music with lyrics will be allowed at this year's Winter Games.
Or the counterpart of Thomas Heatherwick's Betty, the torch-cum-cauldron with 204 moving petals lit by representatives of the rising generation of athletes?
I think this is a way also of them giving back to a new generation of athletes, particularly young female athletes".
