It's been a dream for me since I was six years old to go to the Olympic Games and to finally have that dream realised is something massive for me.

I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.

Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me.

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.