During the Singapore World Cup meeting, Australian Thorpe marks return to the competition after being away from swimming for five years. He has been looking forward for some exciting challenge in 2012.
He also remarked that time is going against him and not expecting positive return. The 29 year old stated from his training base in Switzerland, “I'm more concerned about [being really successful] because that's what I'm not prepared for. I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that. I'm more prepared to struggle through this whole thing and just enjoy it because I've never experienced that in my career.”
He further added, “I don't think anyone's done this before with the timeframe that I have. Realistically, it's probably too short. For some reason, in my mind, this is helping me. It's making it harder so I'm more focused.”
Instead of targeting medals, Thorpe set some other goals. While addressing BBC, he further said, “My goal at the start - and this will remain my goal through the Olympics - was to be able to swim faster than I used to. If at any stage I didn't think I could do that, I don't know if I'd continue. Medals are good but, for us in swimming, times are better because you have very little control over who wins. The best way to win the nicer-coloured medals is to make sure your process is a lot better than everyone else's. Simple as that.”
He also added, “I also don't think you should just limit yourself to trying to achieve this result, because this is what people perceive as being the ultimate. Push yourself beyond that and take that attitude of not just trying to win by one tenth of a second when you can win by two seconds. Take it that far. That's athletic accomplishment, not just what you get to wear around your neck.”
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