FLASH QUOTES- Swimming
Tera van Beilen:
“It’s going to be a busy meet for me, I knew that coming in, so I’m just trying to go through all my recovery strategies. Just forget about the last race and move onto the next. Hopefully I swam fast enough to get in, but we’ll see.”
“Every year it changes, sometimes I’m good at the 50m, sometimes I’m terrible, it really depends. I’m still not sure what my best event is.”
“I got my tattoo a year before the Olympic trials, so I kind of used it as motivation to make the Olympic team the following year. I look at it every time I dive and it’s kind of a little fun thing.”
Kierra Smith:
“Going in I knew that if my training came together as it should and if I raced as well as I could today that I would go 2:25probably, just like for my splits this morning in warm-up and I’m happy that the race did go well for me. That’s the nervous part for me, hoping that everything goes well, that my cap doesn’t slip or my goggles don’t fall, but everything went well and I’m so happy.”
“It’s great to see Canada doing well, we’ve been doing well the whole meet, so I’m excited.”
“It was good to see Martha and Tera go first, I like racing with them, so it’s been fun.”
“I didn’t exactly think to far ahead, I was pretty nervous about making the final. But now I’m just going to treat it as a normal swim meet, so I’ll go home and eat lunch and sleep and then tonight, I love to race, so I’ll give it a good shot and will give it everything I can.”
Katerine Savard:
“I came back late last night at the Athlete’s Village so I’m a little bit surprised about my time this morning. It’s really good and I’m going to race tonight and tomorrow night so I’m excited to see what I can do.”
“My best race is the 100 fly, but for the 50 you just have to go really fast one way so I really like it too. It’s not the same strategy. For the 50 I just breathed once, so it’s really different from the 100 fly.”
Sandrine Mainville:
“I’m happy that we all made the semis and I think there’s a good opportunity for us to make the finals tonight, it would be great for all three of us to make the final.”
Any last punchlines? – “Go Canada!”
Michelle Williams:
“I just came in this morning with one goal; to make it back tonight, so I’m very excited for the final.”
“We’re used to racing each other at the nationals, so all being in the same heat today was really fun. It’s a lot of fun to be in the Ready Room together.
Alyson Ackman:
“For this relay there was a little more pressure because it’s the 200, you have to make sure you swim it smart. The 100 was more about energy.”
“You have to have a good race plan. Our race plan this morning was to win the heat and get into the finals tonight. Tonight will be the big race.”
“I always love using the girls behind the blocks to create even more energy. It’s so much fun and so much energy to be with these girls, I love training with them and it’s just so much fun to race next to them. I try to use that as much as I can.”
Samantha Cheverton:
“We knew we just had to win the heat to get in a good spot for the finals. We didn’t want to push too hard for this morning to make sure we’re not tired tonight. We want to be fresh for tonight because we know the other teams will be fresh.”
“We weren’t too stressed out, this morning we just knew that if we had strong, good swims we would be fine, so it was actually a lot of fun.”
Brittany Maclean:
“It was so fun. Being ahead and still being relaxed, we got to chill out.”
“We’re all hoping to drop at least a few seconds in the finals. There’s a lot of girls that didn’t even swim this morning that will be racing us tonight, so we are going to be in the mindset that we are still just as fresh.”
“I think we all have a lot of room to drop and our takeovers were really safe so tonight we’re still going to be safe but a little bit more risky than we were this morning and see if we can get our hand on the wall for a medal.”
“I think we’re the shortest relay team in history but we’re fast.”
