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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.

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

It's amazing to get one Olympic gold, but you have to be a legend to get two. And that's definitely my aim.

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.

An Olympic medal is much better than a world record, and so is a world championship or Commonwealth Games medal.

It would be pretty special if I could win two Olympic gold medals, one at the Summer Games and one from the Winters, so I'm going to give it a real go.

Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.

Olympic medals are the one medal that I don't have; I've won just about every other competition that I've been at.

It's an error to count on winning a medal in the triathlon. With one race every four years, anything can happen, especially in a sport as tactical as this where it isn't always the strongest who wins.

It's not always about gold medals, I think. It has to be about development, and we are missing that in U.K. at the moment.