Records are there to be broken. Lots of people would love to swap their world record for an Olympic medal, but for me, my medals are there forever and ever, and that's what does it for me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.
It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.
That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals.
Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.
An Olympic medal is much better than a world record, and so is a world championship or Commonwealth Games medal.
I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.
We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.
Olympic medals are the one medal that I don't have; I've won just about every other competition that I've been at.
An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.
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