There is water in every lane, so it is OK.

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in

This Is Me”: ”For the record, I am not gay and all my sexual experiences have been straight. I'm attracted to women, I love children and aspire to have a family one day … I know what it's like to grow up and be told what your sexuality is, then realising that it's not the full reality. I was accused of being gay before I knew who I was.

Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

Im pleased to say that in telling them, and especially my parents, they told me that they love me and they support me. And for young people out there, know that thats usually what the answer is.

I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.