I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
I'm extremely happy that I could win the gold medal. It's a special moment in my career.
Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.
But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.
I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.
My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.
I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal.
I've won a world championship, I know how that feels. I don't know how it feels to win a gold medal. I want to feel that; I want to know that.
It's insane to have won all those things - not possible. But what I love is learning, which never stops and is nothing to do with the medals you've won.
To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.