This would have to be the toughest moment of my life, whether to swim an event at the Olympic Games or to look after one of your best mates.

I'm going to an Olympic Games, that's the bottom line!

I was just speechless. To go in there (Olympic Trials) thinking, just hoping, to qualify for one event at the Olympic Games then to qualify for three events. I couldn't explain it.

I am so immensely proud to be representing my country at the Athens Olympic Games, that's more than enough for me.

Straight away there was pressure to give away the spot. 'Are you going to swim it'?. "I don't like taking sleeping tablets but it got to the stage where I needed to rest for my 1500m.

There's a lot more to life than just the Olympic Games.