This is why relays are so important, because you can find more in yourself for someone else, than what you can ever find for yourself.

I am not going to allow myself not to perform well just because I don't feel well. I am bulletproof to the extent that a lot of things can be thrown at me, but it's about how much I am prepared to let them affect me

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 swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.

Part of me didn't know if Australia wanted its champion to be gay.

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

People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows