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I'm Michael Cole and I'm the editor of live athletics. I joined the ´óÏó´«Ã½
in 1990 and have been within Sport since 1992. I've worked on athletics
- in one role or another - since 1993.

As the editor of live athletics I work alongside the executive producer
and senior producers to plan our athletics coverage. What that involves
varies whether it's an international event like the World Championships,
or a domestic event such as Crystal Palace. There's a fair amount of
crossover between their roles and mine, but the broad split is that I
concentrate on what the programme should include, and they look after
how that happens. On the actual day of a programme I decide whether we
should be doing track, field, interviews, build up or studio chat and
they direct the programme including the coverage of the athletics
itself.