TY - JOUR T1 - <em>Breathe</em> has a new Chief Editor JF - Breathe JO - breathe SP - 83 LP - 83 DO - 10.1183/20734735.600112 VL - 9 IS - 2 AU - James Y. Paton Y1 - 2012/12/01 UR - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/9/2/83.abstract N2 - 2012 has been the year of the Games of the XXX Olympiad with more than 10,000 athletes from 204 countries competing in London. One of the highlights of the memorable summer was the men's 4×100 metre relay competition in which Usain Bolt powered Jamaica to a world-record time of 36.84 seconds, winning his third gold medal of the games. Most journals run their own slower version of a relay race, with the Editors changing every few years. The September issue of Breathe was Prof. Leif Bjermer's last before he passed on the Editorial baton. He leaves Breathe very well placed. At present, each edition of Breathe goes out to ∼15,000 subscribers with two-thirds of the readership in Europe and one-third in the USA and the rest of the world. Testament to Breathe's wide reach, the website has had visits from 162 countries. So the journal has a truly global … ER -