"Yes, Mike, of course, it is true, I would not lie in an interview that I knew was being recorded, I intend to start running in the 10,000 meters and 5,000 meters."
"So how are you saying this is that you are confident that you can stand a chance of winning the 10,000 meters and 5,000 meters?"
"I would not say that I am confident, I am certainly training to run in the 5,000 meters and the 10,000 meters, and from what my trainer and I saw in my training I certainly have the possibility of winning running in these modalities."
"What complicates things a little is that because of the NBA game season I decided that I'll just try to run the 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters in the next Olympics, I'll do the qualifiers and try to get the time for the Sydney Olympics in 2000."
"So I'm just going to be able to find out if that's possible when I participate in the qualifiers and I'm going to take advantage of my NBA vacation to train more for the next Olympics."
