I was thinking it was probably a couple feet, hoping for a couple of inches. And it could have been 14 feet away.

I had to work graveyard, which I usually don't -- I was tired. I played awful -- had one of my worst front nines ever.

It was hard thinking about what had happened, as much as I tried not to. I went back to the hotel and I couldn't stop thinking about it because I was the next ranked athlete behind Grant (Hackett) and just to think 'What if I get second? What's going to happen? And that type of thing'.

I was thinking we had won a hard-fought battle, and I was going to celebrate.

Going back, and thinking about all that happened, it's hard to believe I came out the other side strong and healthy and still racing. I'm just happy to be racing.

The average age of the gold medalists is 23.5 so when you're thinking about moving forward to Beijing and Osaka before that, you have to feel pretty good about that.