After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level.

We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.

I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.

Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You know, right after I started swimming it was, 'I want to make an Olympic team. That's where I want to be.'

Being happy outside the pool means fast swimming in the pool.

Fantasy enabled me to break the shackles and create a whole new level of 'the world is in danger' stakes.