BBC Sport | In Pictures | Dean Macey's decathlon pictures

Playing catch-up

If I�m fit, I'll always go for it on day one and see where the opposition is.

You don't want to take it easy, be 200 points behind and then have to work your butt off.

At the 2001 world championships I had loads of injections for my groin and still went hell for leather. If my groin was going to explode, I was going to be in first place.


�In pictures:�Dean Macey's decathlon pictures

	Playing catch-up If I�m fit, I'll always go for it on day one and see where the opposition is. You don't want to take it easy, be 200 points behind and then have to work your butt off. At the 2001 world championships I had loads of injections for my groin and still went hell for leather. If my groin was going to explode, I was going to be in first place.