Ian Thorpe
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After that, it was then that I wanted to be back and competing.

It's a hot field. It's going to be a good race at the Commonwealth Games.

I'm excited about swimming the event because I won my first Olympic gold medal in the event.

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.

It's getting close to being two years away, so it's close, and it's exciting already.

It was tough but I was able to produce a pretty good performance and I'm ecstatic about the result.

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.

Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.

Training in that cold pool of a morning really tests you, whether you really want to do it or not.