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If you are a British swimmer and you have aspirations of competing

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in the Olympic Games, this could be the most important week of your

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life. Welcome to the Aquatics Centre, here in Olympic Park, and

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welcome to the start of the British Olympic trials.

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Dreams will become reality, one way or the other, under this

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spectacular roof. Competing in this venue is something that the

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swimmers will want to repeat. Fail to perform over the next few days,

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and there is the possibility they will not be coming back. Starting

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this evening we will be bringing you all of the action from both our

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able bodies and Paralympic swimmers. Next Saturday we will be showing

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the highlights from the weak and running up who will and will not

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have secured their place. This is very exciting because we have been

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given exclusive access at the British swimmers get their first

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taste up the water in the Olympic pool. How important is this week

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for the swimmers? Really important. If they do not come in they do not

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go. There are only two places up for grabs in most events. It is one

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of these things that if you make a false start you are out. You have

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to qualify. Even Rebecca Adlington has to qualify. This is when they

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find out what kind of shape they are in. You would be more nervous

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for this than the Olympics, in a sense? A bit of both. You will be

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pretty nervous for this. You have to get those qualifying times. The

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competition has gone so high that it means we have three or four

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world-class swimmers competing for just two places. How do these

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trials were? There are qualifying times set up by FINA. If one person

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does not qualify it then the second person has to come in the top 16.

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If only one person does it, they will have another chance at the

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second qualification. Here are some of the key names.

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She might be Britain's most successful Olympic swimmer for over

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100 years, but our Rebecca has double fight just like everyone

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else. I just want to have a chance to go. Everyone wants that

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opportunity. She has won it so many awards. She pocketed five medals at

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the European championships, but they just go how Sol would train

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them all for a piece of Olympic glory. Liam Tancock has to go

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double his distance. He is focusing on gaining a second, not silver.

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your best bet you a medal and a position, that is a bonus for you.

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-- if you best. Kerri-Anne Payne has not got her head in the clouds.

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Where better to start than with the golden girl from Beijing? Since

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2008, it has not exactly been plain sailing for Rebecca Adlington. But

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she is determined to return to the top in this very pool. Stunning

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stuff from Adams and! Two gold medals, world champion! -- stunning

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stuff from Rebecca Adlington. Rebecca Adlington, stand up and

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salute the world. You are brilliant! 2011 was a really good

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year. There is a lot of pressure going into the Games. Yes,

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definitely. There is always pressure leading into the Games. I

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am just more excited. I am really looking forward to it and I just

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hope that they qualify. That is the biggest thing. I want to have a

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chance to go and race. Everyone wants that opportunity and everyone

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wants to fight for that. Hopefully I can go and experience a home

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Olympics. What more do you want? What have you learnt from Beijing?

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Are I would not change one thing. I have no regrets. I have learned so

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much. It has made me stronger. I had the opportunity to do things I

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never got to do before or after Beijing. I wanted to get into the

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pool and try out things that went well for me or did not go so well.

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I have come out and been disappointed but I have tried to

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practise as much as I have -- can. It has made me stronger. You have

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to do the qualifying times. Are you generally worried? Do you feel that

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one of those places are yours? These are very tough events. I am

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not stupid. I know people will want to beat me. You have to do it on

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the day. If you get sick the day before or fall over, you will have

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a top race on your hands. You only have one chance to do it and that

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is scary. There are only two spots and there are some amazing girls

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there and I know it will be a challenge. What makes the home

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advantage so special? It is the home crowd. I have never competed

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for a big home crowd before. I had then to Rome and they all greet me

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and you have that experience and it is amazing but it has never been

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thought Team GB. This trial is for us and it will be amazing to have

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the big crowd. To have that is the most exciting thing. When everyone

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is cheering for you you feel the buzz and it gives you that little

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bit extra. It is great to see Rebecca Adlington looking so great.

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It is the most confident I have seen her for a long time. She put a

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month out in California. She is a totally different swimmer now.

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is she being genuine when she says that she has not qualified yet, or

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is she wearing the cloak of humility? I personally think, I can

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say that to be the world record holder, you are not nailed on, but

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that is just the way she is. That is the reason why she wins. She is

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it not be a full and that makes her perform better. He is seemingly

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rising to the idea of being the Mark 1. -- she is seemingly rising.

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It is not easy to get to the top. It is easier to get there than to

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state their. Everyone is coming for her. -- to stay there. She is going

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into this from the European Commonwealth championship and we on

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know that she is in great form. talked about the way her fans spur

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her aunt, but it is also important for her to get familiar with the

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surroundings. You have to feel good in that pool. To know that the

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crowd is behind you is fantastic. It is also the simple things. Being

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able to get a bar of chocolate or go to bed at a normal time. The

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weather conditions are exactly the same. It is just the home converts.

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People will get an opportunity to race this weekend and do some

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training before the Olympics. It sounds stupid, but you want to know

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where the toilets are. It will be a home away from home. Sheffield

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wants to come in here and relax. There is nothing else to worry

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about but the race itself. Rebecca has still is very young. She was

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only in 19 in Beijing. It is not a certainty that she will qualify.

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But back that will be competing in the 300 metre freestyle tomorrow

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morning and Andy 800 metre freestyle on a Friday morning. --

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Friday evening. Look out for Joe Jackson in those races as well.

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Rebecca is not the only British, Canada in that team. -- British

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competitor in that team. One swimmer has had a chronic fatigue

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disorder which ruled him out for a crucial six weeks in 2011. His

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place at the Olympic Games is far from guaranteed.

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I always turn up to the pool each day and I would not be able to swim.

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It was that bad. I was really lethargic. I was very down with it.

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I was unhappy and I was training poorly. I would try and try harder

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and that would make it even worse and make it more miserable. It was

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a vicious circle. I failed to admit that I had the disorder because I

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did not want to accept it. I felt really bad in training. I knew

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something was up and I was going through different casts and hoping

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that maybe I picked up an illness and there was a quick fix. --

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different tests. My muscles were completely shot. I could not do

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anything to progress. The best thing to cure it was to clean the

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slate and start from scratch and have a big six-week break. I

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questioned whether I had had my time. I do not want to go out like

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that. I wondered if I should walk away. I knew I could resolve it. I

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am not quite back to my best yet, but if I can get back into the

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game's and get back to that sort of level, the main thing is to keep

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the enjoyment and the motivation and the hunger. I cannot forget

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that I have had success in the past and there is no reason why you

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cannot do it again. Poor David. Lots of people will have no idea

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that he has had such a tough time. Did you ever have a time in your

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career when you thought everything was going wrong? I had a virus in

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1979. The problem with things like that is that it is not just a

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simple diagnosis. You do not know what it is and your confidence

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rarely get knocked when you should be feeling good about yourself. --

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really get knocked. Just training and doing it year after year, when

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he was 18... It was a long time ago. I think he painted in China, didn't

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he? He looked very badly. -- I think he fainted. He is doing over

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100 kilometres a week. You will get run down. The worst thing is that

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you know something is wrong with you and you do not know what. You

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start thinking about retiring, and that must have been scary for him.

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He is a young guy, 27 years old. How realistic is it for him to

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expect to qualify and perform at the Olympics? I think he will

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qualify. He has got to qualify here. He has other opportunities later.

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If he concentrates in the open water and get back to his best, we

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could see silver or bronze. -- gets back to his best. He has to pick

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one or the other. That will be taking place, the open water, in

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Hyde Park. David will be competing in the 1,500 metres a week from

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today. He will be competing against Daniel Fogg. Daniel is not old

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enough to drink but he will be competing next week. Tom Daley was

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here last week with the other British diverse.

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The venue passed with flying colours, but Tom Daley's

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disappointing performance on the platform was put in the spotlight

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after comments made by his performance director. However, his

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partner Pete what appealed died out of his skin in the individual 10

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metre event, and claimed as a magnificent bronze against a world

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class field. More success came and the women's platform

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synchronisation, where there was a well earned a bronze. British

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diving is an excellent -- is in excellent health. If I was to say

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to you, name me a swimmer on the cusp of greatness, you would say?

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Francesca Halsall. I think she is a national -- natural sprinter. She

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is recovering from an ankle injury. She has a huge personality. We have

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been finding out more. Is it going to be silver? That is

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brilliant. She heads down. It is going to be mighty close. She has

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it. You have got to think that you can do anything if you want to win.

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I do not take it for granted that I will win but I feel that if I put

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in my head that maybe I will not then I am more likely not to you.

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When I think of different athletes involved in the sport, I think of

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the home advantage, and 20,000 people screaming. I think that is

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probably going to work for you more than anyone. I cannot wait for it.

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It is definitely going to let me to higher levels. When we went in the

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pool in Manchester in 2009, I came out and there were all of these

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people cheering. I had goose bumps. I stacked my break out and I have

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never done that before. Someone told me it was the best break out

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they had ever seen and I told them that I was just over excited!

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do you think it will be like for your parents watching? How nervous

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will they be? My mum is lucky I do not swim a further distance. She

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holds her breath for my whole swam. She might be passed out by the end

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of it! Quite a lot of people go around saying that they want to do

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their best and whatever happens happens and a medal would be good,

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but I do not really understand that. If I do not win a gold medal I will

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not be happy. I might come second but you want to win a race, don't

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you? That is why you do the hardest event you can do because it is so

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close. It shows you the basses person in the world. If you can win

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it in his fantastic. -- the Bath What is a breakout? It is when you

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take your first stroke and break through the surface. So is she

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getting better technically? Absolutely. She is a much more

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mature swimmer. She has got vast experience in all the major

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competitions. Come out into the crowd and hearing it. How many

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events can she do? Three individual and then two relay. The toughest

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want to qualify will be the 100- metre flying -- fly. Yes, she could

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potentially not qualify for those because she has so much competition.

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You can see all of them in the Coming up. The man they call the

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tide shows his feminine side. You might have seen her face adoring

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billboards for make-up companies, but open-water swimming is anything

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but glamourous. We catch up with Keri-Anne Payne. You might think

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that Liam Tancock would be a certainty for a medal. No, he has

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got to work to get there. He is hugely talented. We caught up with

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Liam Tancock around the pool table. Where is the money on the table?

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Liam Tancock has got it! It is fair to say you are Britain's best?

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have picked up medals at every World Championships I have been too.

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You are a consistent performer. just like racing. That is genuinely

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thought it is. You never worry about anyone else? There is no need

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to worry about anyone. No one else can affect my water, so to speak.

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Do you never were a thing you see what other people have done? No.

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short of falling off the block or a cat coming into your lame, -- into

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your lane, you will be OK? I am allergic to cats. I cannot believe

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you do ballet dancing. It is not the ballet dancing you think of.

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are you sure? Core mussels are very important in swimming. We also have

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to be aware of our limits. Ballet dancers are the same. I think there

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You potted the black. Would you prefer to do a personal best time

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at the Olympics more than a metal? Personal best. I know that if I

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swim and a personal best time, I will be happy. You cannot do

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anything more than the best. If it your best to get to a medal, get to

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opposition, that is a bonus for you. Both of them it look like they are

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quite good at playing pool. You both gasped of when you heard Liam

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Tancock as saying he would rather get a personal best than a medal.

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Every athlete wants to get a medal. No one remembers that the time, it

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is a medal. But if he does a personal best, that should put him

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a monster the medals. It is not about the best times on the day, it

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is about their medals at the Olympics. At championships, it is

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about the times. What chance has he got? How is it going in terms of

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trying to swim a 100-metre backstroke? You are doubling the

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distance. It is quite a difference. If it they could stop the race at

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80 metres, I think he would stand a good chance. He will be looking to

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dominate the final of the 100 metres backstroke. Pretty much any

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discussion about the British swimming focuses on the women

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because they are proving to be more successful. With the men, is there

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anybody else we should be looking out for? James Goddard. He was 4th

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in the world rankings last year. Who else? Michael Jamieson. There

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are three guys fighting for two spots in the breaststroke. We have

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got a swim or like Michael Phelps? Michael Watkins. hopefully his

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confidence has increased. Korean team are here because it is

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an international competition as well. Are you not tempted to go out

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and say that you can still do it? am always prepared, I have my speed

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ofs on -- Speedo on. competition starts tonight from at

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6:25pm. Plenty of top class action. This is Hannah Miley. This is a big

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week for you. How are you? Really excited. As a mix -- as an athlete,

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you get excited and nervous. But you have to manage it. It is great

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to be poolside now. I will be swimming in a variety of events

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this week. I am racing a couple of races. But there is a plan to it.

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The 200 individual medley is the main one. The other events are just

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a cake make ticking over. I love hard work. I want to take advantage

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of racing faster this pool. We are trying out something different just

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now. The target is to go faster at the Olympic bins. -- Olympic Games.

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What would you actually swim at the Olympic Games? It depends how

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things go. Definitely the 402 hundred individual medley. Anything

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else would be a bonus. I am trying to keep my options open. Other --

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who else is catching up with you? There are lots of young ones

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catching up. It is exciting because it shows the depth of so many in

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Britain, it has really improved. one can fall due for hard work.

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Thank you very much. There is only one swimmer who has actually

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already qualified for the Olympic Games, Keri-Anne Payne. She has

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qualified for the open-water swimming.

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The Olympics are only five months away and you have already got your

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place. What was it like when you knew you had got the place?

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Qualifying for the Olympics in Shanghai was amazing. I knew that I

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had to do it them. It was an incredible swim and it went

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perfectly from start to finish. I got out feeling so happy and proud

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of myself for doing it. I was a really excited to perform in front

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of a home crowd. But you are back this week? I want to qualify for

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thes team. -- have for the pool team. It is the best preparation.

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Being poolside and hearing the national anthem was one of the best

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moments. Having already qualified, you might have thought she would

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have wanted a quiet week. No, I think this is part of her training

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routine. She enjoys being in with the team. It is interesting to see

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how important it is for her. My advice is to concentrate on one

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thing however. She has got it all. She is a lovely personality, lovely,

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popular and talented. She is going to have a great career. She won the

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last two championships in the open water. This one, on paper, she

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should. But she does have everything. She has become the face

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of swimming. Having already qualified, she should concentrate

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on the open water, but she likes to be with the rest of the slammers.

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She is very close to the team. Her future husband, David Carry, they

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are getting married in September. - I am hearing there could be more

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British swimmers qualifying for this Olympic Games than any

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previous Games? So exciting. Yes, you would like to think so. It will

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be our biggest team in 100 years. As far as the state of British

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swimming is concerned, you think it is pretty healthy? Yes, it is the

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best I have ever seen it. Several names have an opportunity to win

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medals in the past, but this time, I could give you a dozen names.

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just have to turn the names into medals. The atmosphere here will be

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