Daniel Wiffen

I would rarely do anything else other than swim.

Nah.

Nah?

I think the Olympic gold medal kind of is like... Yeah.

It's all right.

Yeah, I mean, parents basically become an elite athlete because they're turning up at 5am and watching you swimming for two hours.

And then, well, for example, my dad would drive me to training and then all the dads would do the same thing.

And they'd have a little work group at the top of the pool where they'd all set their laptops.

And then my mum would pick me up from training, drive me to the bus stop and have breakfast, like in a packed lunch, for me to eat on the drive on the way to Lurking.

I swam in Lisbon.

And then you go to school, my mum would pick me up from the bus stop.

And then she'd speed down the motorway to Lisbon, get in the session, have dinner in the car, and then have a second dinner after the session at home.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, like every competition I do, my parents are normally there to watch, which is great.

So I always look up at them in the crowd or I see them when I'm walking out.

And it makes everything more special to me that they are like, I guess, I feel like I'm giving something back, you know.

Yeah.

Winning the medals and doing everything that they get to see.

I mean, even if I didn't win them, I'm still pretty sure they would have been happy.

But I'm happy for myself.