Daniel Wiffen

My parents would always bring us there.

It's my favorite city in the world.

And you know, on the open top buses, when you do the tours with the tour guide and the speaker, well, they play this song on repeat.

in between when they're speaking.

So when we were back in Paris for the Olympics, we had like a team area where all the teams sit and then you go to the call room.

And I'd blast on speaker in the team area of all the other countries, this song, just because it brings me back to those memories of every time I come to Paris, my favourite place, and it gets me in the right mindset, ready to race.

Um...

You know, it definitely depends on the race, but we're talking like Olympic final where I'm very focused.

I've got my headphones on.

I'm sitting there about 25 minutes before just in the zone, blanking out everything in the room, just focusing on breathing and what I'm, the job I have to do.

You know, there is some mind games that go on.

Like, I would say a lot of the time it's, like, you know, maybe somebody shoulders you in a call room or, like, somebody's, like, accidentally spilt water on you.

Yeah.

Yeah, well, my type of mind game is I like to do the walkouts when I walk out to the race.

And for the Olympic final, I, like, walked out writing my name on my hand saying I'm writing my name in the history books.

And that's my kind of way of putting off my competitors because they know how confident I am that I'm going to win.

So this song is played on repeat every time that I walk out for a race.

So if you ever see me with headphones on, this song is going to be the song that I'm playing.

And I don't know what it is.

Every time I, either on a night out or, like...