He was 18 last Friday but missed celebrating at home because he was on the ship. We chat; he’s doing well.Spent afternoon on personnel and budget matters, and left about 5pm for the gym to try to get myself fitter. I’m on call overnight, so I can’t have a drink and probably won’t sleep well.Georgina Harland Olympic Bronze Medallist in Modern PentathlonI’ve hardly had time for a diary today as I’m preparing for the World Championship, in Guatemala, which means training in shooting, swimming, running fencing and riding for 12 hours a day.I train at Bath University’s sports training village, which is the national centre for my sport. Some of the methods are very advanced including a computer-generated target for shooting practice and monitoring lactose levels as part of swim training.I won’t get home until about 10pm – and with so little time to unwind, I have a guilty secret about what I do for relaxation.

I have just got Sky Plus, which enables you to record entire soap operas so when I get home I watch Home and Away or Neighbours.Sport is at a very interesting time in Britain at the moment. It’s such a buzzword and there is so much investment going on thanks to the Olympics and the hope is that passion for sport will be translated into more mass participation. It will be interesting to look back in 20 years’ time to see whether that has been the case. Days like these mean you have no time for contemplation although when I get the chance I am going to get tickets to visit the Bath Spa, which finally reopened this summer.James Dyson InventorUp at 7am.

Bono has become not just a rock star but an important world figure.In the years that followed the tour, the band and Ms Cashman have not had a cordial relationship, partly because she wrote an unauthorised account of behind-the-scenes life with them during that tour.Her book appeared to create little impact, possibly because it seemed to pale into insignificance when compared to other rock memoirs. We hoped we would be around long enough to be part of that.”Bono said Ms Cashman had been hired to replace the band’s usual stylist, who was on maternity leave. He continued: “It was very clear on almost immediate arrival she wasn’t good in dealing with personal relationships, and initially put a lot of people’s noses out of place.”The Joshua Tree tour was a key moment in the rise of U2: they were already an established band but the tour helped them ascend into the stratosphere of superstardom. “It was always part of my idea of how I wanted to present myself to the world in an ironic sense,” he explained.He stressed it was important to the band to keep a record of their memorabilia either to archive or donate, adding: “We thought it would have some importance of the history of the band.