Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.

The thing I do best is laugh.

Asthma is treatable and well can be controlled.

When I was 18 years old, about to develop my sportsman career, the asthma complaints became already some years before.

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.