Stephanie Rice
Stephanie Rice
Stephanie Louise Rice, OAMis an Australian competitive swimmer. She won three gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia on 26 January 2009...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionSwimmer
Date of Birth17 June 1988
CityBrisbane, Australia
CountryAustralia
pain needs
Whenever you get a sharp pain, you need to back it off.
block done lines
You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.
love-is thinking race
I think for me I've always loved being in the water and I love training and I love being at the pool so you know it's not a chore for me to go training, but come race day I would never just train to train - I train to race.
team thinking trying
I think there is more pressure at trials when you are trying to make the team and you have to come first or second, and you have to go under qualifying time.
swim racing able
And I guess the thing that I really sort of rely on in me is that I love racing and I love competing and so I know that you know when the time comes and the pressure's on and I have to swim well, I'm sort of able to pull it out and sort of get the best out of myself.
mean swimming thinking
I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour.
sports swimming hardest
Swimming is one of the hardest sports.
emotional race high-standards
I sort of set myself really high standards which is good and bad. If I know that I've done all I can to prepare, that's when I race the best and in '09 I was going through a lot of emotional ups and downs and I was never as fit as I would have liked to have been. So I never felt comfortable.
gay homophobic gay-friend
I'm not homophobic at all and I have a lot of gay friends.