I'm excited about swimming the event because I won my first Olympic gold medal in the event,

The 20-year bear market in gold has turned around. The upward trend in price has been in place for the past five years, and for the chartists out there, I don't believe you've seen anything yet.

I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that.

I think now I'll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people and work out what is next, work out what the next preparation will be and what competition will be next.

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'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.