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Ian Thorpe

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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.


— Ian Thorpe


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I'm still swimming.


— Ian Thorpe


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I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.


— Ian Thorpe


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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.


— Ian Thorpe


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I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.


— Ian Thorpe


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I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.


— Ian Thorpe


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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.


— Ian Thorpe


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


— Ian Thorpe


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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.


— Ian Thorpe


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I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.


— Ian Thorpe


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In February Thorpe qualified for the 2006 Commonwealth Games by winning the 100 m and 200 m freestyle in times of 49. Thorpe swam the 100 m butterfly and 100 m medley in Singapore (4–5 November) and Beijing (8–9 November) before also taking on the 100 m freestyle in the Tokyo (12–13 November) round of the 2011 FINA Swimming World Cup. Aside from 13 individual long-course world records Thorpe anchored the Australian relay teams numbering the victories in the 4 × 100 m and the 4 × 200 m freestyle relays in Sydney among his five relay world records.

Thorpe was the first person to have been named Swimming World Swimmer of the Year four times and was the Australian swimmer of the year from 1999 to 2003. 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. Aside from 13 individual long-course world records Thorpe anchored the Australian relay teams numbering the victories in the 4 × 100 m and the 4 × 200 m freestyle relays in Sydney among his five relay world records.

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