's pretty special and any pressure is kind of deserved, that's how I choose to look at it.Well done on an amazing season. You always make winning look incredibly easy, do you still get pre-race nerves?Sometimes. It's always worse at the first few races

strategies for coping with race day nerves - and the pressure of being the 2012 Olympic triathlon favourite.Do you have a strategy going into the Olympic qualification races?I'd like it to be a hard swim, hard bike, hard run - but I've got to prepared

Park. She took silver in the ITU World Series races in Kitzbühel and Madrid, and first place in the Clermont ITU Sprint Triathlon Pan American Cup. She also won, in grim conditions, the GE Strathclyde Park Sprint Triathlon in May, finishing a

to dazzle once again. In July she became the first athlete to qualify for the home Olympics following her 10km open-water victory at the Fina World Championships in Shanghai.So who better to ask about open-water racing, motivation and confidence? We caught

to the same routine it calms the nerves.Q) Tell us a bit about the role of nutrition in your training.A) I use Science in Sport for my nutrition. I think before the race it’s really important to keep hydrated. I’ve had a few races where I‘ve really suffered