I've been offered a few professional contracts... in the hundreds and thousands.

I just happen to be a woman and involved in sport, but that doesn't necessarily make me a feminist.

I've had losses in my career before, and I've always come back stronger from those losses.

I love being the favourite of every competition.

The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.

Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.

Though sporting a hideous mustache is in no way comparable to the physical pain and mental suffering men with these diseases endure, Movember still forces participants to challenge their manhood on a daily basis. Growing a moustache for men's cancer isn't as feel-good an activity as running a marathon for a cure.

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.