Ian Thorpe
Ian Thorpe
Ian James Thorpe, OAMis an Australian swimmer who specialises in freestyle, but also competes in backstroke and the individual medley. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the most won by any Australian, and with three gold and two silver medals, was the most successful athlete at the 2000 Summer Olympics. At the 2001 World Aquatics Championships, he became the first person to win six gold medals in one World Championship. In total, Thorpe has won eleven World Championship golds,...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionSwimmer
Date of Birth13 October 1982
CitySydney, Australia
CountryAustralia
I'm looking forward to actually racing again. It's been such a long time since I've raced now, but I do look forward to my life after swimming as well.
I have never taken so many tablets in my life as I have in the past few weeks.
I'm not worried about the pressure that comes with it, a little concerned, but not worried,
I hope I have preparations where I am healthy and I can produce my best. I hope that once I'm better I can monitor these things and when I get worn out and fatigued, really monitor my health as well as I can.
I didn't think that that was going to happen, ... Maybe what I need is to get up and give more than I had tonight. But I'm really pleased with the way I swam.
I'm excited about swimming the event because I won my first Olympic gold medal in the event,
I hope that this isn't something that's recurring. I hope I have preparations where I am healthy and can produce my best.
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
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've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself.
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've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.
Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.