Ovett had had a few run-ins with the press and so was wandering round the village with dark glasses, a hat and all the rest, while Coe, at least until he lost the 800m, was a little more open.
I definitely learned a lot from how each of them handled all of that.
Gemili may well come back in the future with similar pressure to perform, so if he has the chance to enjoy a Games without it that is brilliant.
On the track he will be wearing a Great Britain vest, the crowd will love him and he will have everyone behind him. In that sense he can’t fail, he just has to run the best that he can.
I don’t think all the sudden media attention is anything to worry about.
If that is going to stop you then it probably means there is something wrong deeper in your psychological make-up anyway and and he certainly looks like he is dealing with it very well.
Instead what will decide if he develops into a serious medal contender at major championships is how he develops as an athlete, because everyone is different.
Bolt won the 200m at the World Junior Championships in 2002 as a 15-year-old before he went to the Athens Olympics as a teenager two years later.
After that, as far as the world’s media were concerned, he disappeared before re-emerging in such astonishing form in 2007.
Of course he hadn’t disappeared.
