Olympic Blog: I couldn't be happier

By Kiera Aitken

Yesterday was race day. I just swam in the Olympics! And I couldn't be any happier with myself. I had an amazing swim. It exceeded all my expectations, and by a lot. I would have been happy to take one tenth of a second off my personal best, and I dropped almost a second and a half.
The last couple of days preparing for my event I was feeling so overwhelmed by the whole thing. It doesn't get much bigger than the Olympic Games. Then this afternoon when I stopped to think about how I was going to swim my race, I remembered how hard I have worked this year and it gave me a lot of comfort. All the hard stuff I had already done, I just had to keep my mind from sabotaging it all. I did a pretty good job at that and it felt great to swim fast when everybody is watching.

Now I'm ready to enjoy the rest of the Games without any stress and I know I deserve it. I can't wait to go stand on the China Wall!

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Congrtaulations on the magnificent performance!