I honestly think if I would've tied my suit and there wouldn't have been any water rushing through it, I think I could've gone at least a second faster.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My suit blew up into a parachute. All this water rushed in, there's air, water in there. I was freaking out.
I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.
I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.
Throughout my career I swam for form. Speed came as a result of it.
I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.
I am at the Olympics, I forgot to tie my suit, how is this gonna happen?
I could float in the pool for hours, just letting the water carry me.
To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
My coach and I thought I could swim a 57.3 if I executed the perfect race, but I did even better than that.
I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick.