Ian Thorpe
Ian Thorpe
Ian James Thorpe, OAMis an Australian swimmer who specialises in freestyle, but also competes in backstroke and the individual medley. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the most won by any Australian, and with three gold and two silver medals, was the most successful athlete at the 2000 Summer Olympics. At the 2001 World Aquatics Championships, he became the first person to win six gold medals in one World Championship. In total, Thorpe has won eleven World Championship golds,...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionSwimmer
Date of Birth13 October 1982
CitySydney, Australia
CountryAustralia
People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows
I am not going to allow myself not to perform well just because I don't feel well. I am bulletproof to the extent that a lot of things can be thrown at me, but it's about how much I am prepared to let them affect me
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
I knew Pieter would go out quick and I just wanted to stay with him. It was a great result.
I'm looking forward to actually racing again. It's been such a long time since I've raced now, but I do look forward to my life after swimming as well.
After that, it was then that I wanted to be back and competing,
I'm getting better and it's actually the best I've felt in a while. I think the antibiotics are starting to work.
I'm excited about swimming the event because I won my first Olympic gold medal in the event,
I hope that this isn't something that's recurring. I hope I have preparations where I am healthy and can produce my best.
I have never taken so many tablets in my life as I have in the past few weeks.
I'm not worried about the pressure that comes with it, a little concerned, but not worried,
I've have never taken so many tablets in my life as what I have in the past few weeks. I've just been fatigued and drained. Basically for the last three weeks I've been watching TV and sleeping.
Training in that cold pool of a morning really tests you, whether you really want to do it or not,
Nowhere near as sluggish for a morning swim this morning, so I was comfortable and hopefully it'll be a bit faster tonight.