Lilly King

I was very confident that that wasn't going to happen for myself.

He seems, or the losing.

But he was like, well, if you got third, I thought I'd make you happy.

I was like, that was a very kind thought.

But I would have said yes, obviously.

I don't think I would have been super happy at the moment when it happened.

Maybe, maybe.

It was, you know, separation of church and state there, so...

If you expect to win, which is part of what makes you a champion, do you get nervous?

I know you're retired.

Did you get nervous?

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Especially like Olympic trials when you go in and the whole point of the meet is you got to be top two.

So there's usually, you know, 100 to 150 people in your event and only two make the Olympic team.

So pretty much, especially if you're expecting to make it going into that final, you just got to think, don't mess up.

I do.

They didn't like it that much.

Yeah.

You know, in one Olympic final, I did make eye contact with another girl off of a turn.

So that was, I think, as close as we could get in the water.