As we run up to this summer's Olympics in Athens, we look back with Jonathan Edwards to Sydney.
While Jonathan was in the UK training camp along the coast from Sydney, he received the telephone call he had been dreading.
Alison's mother had died. It would not be possible for Jonathan to take the 22-hour flight to the UK for the funeral and back to Sydney, without leaving himself so jet-lagged and exhausted that he would not be able to compete. It was one or the other. He felt he was letting Alison down by not being with her in the biggest crisis of her life, and there is no doubt that this added to the pressure on him to win. Put crudely, there was no point in having stayed in Australia if he didn't win gold.
