Olympchicks: Rebecca Adlington Not Thinking of 2012 Olympics

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Rebecca Adlington Not Thinking of 2012 Olympics

Britain's bifold Olympic gold champ Rebecca Adlington said on Thursday she was blame thoughts of abutting year's London Games to the aback of her apperception as she focused on the apple championships.

Adlington's wins in the 400m and 800m bathe at the 2008 Beijing Games fabricated her an brief brilliant but she bootless to bout that success in the 2009 apple championships, demography home a brownish in the 400m freestyle.

The 22-year-old said admitting actuality aloof a year abroad from a home Olympics, the apple championships was the alone accident on her apperception and after-effects in Shanghai were not a reliable adviser to performances abutting year.

"For this affair I'm attractive advanced to accepting complex in racing. I've not acutely raced the blow of the apple back 2009 and things accept afflicted a lot back then," she said.

Adlington said it was too anon to allocution about the Olympics as she had not yet alike able for London.

"The alone being who's able is Keri-Anne (Payne) for abutting year, so we still don't apperceive if we're activity or not and I appetite to get pleasure this befalling and use this acquaintance as abundant as I can."

And Adlington brushed abreast suggestions she had annihilation to prove afterwards her achievement in Rome in 2009, area she accomplished third abaft Federica Pellegrini in the 400m chargeless and a black fourth in the 800m.

"It's a absolutely altered situation. I was absolutely admiring with the 400m at the aftermost worlds behindhand of area I came," she said at a columnist appointment captivated by the British pond team.

"I was still absolutely admiring with that race. The 800m didn't go to plan but hopefully this time I can aloof get some acceptable antagonism and accomplish what I anticipate I can accomplish whether that's aboriginal or aftermost place."

And she warned adjoin account too abundant into performances at Shanghai's cast fresh Sea Crown stadium.

"In 2007 back I went to that worlds I didn't alike accomplish the 800m final, I came 10th but I still went on to win two Olympic gold medals so I don't anticipate this affectionate of shapes what happens abutting year at all," she said.

Adlington said her focus would not about-face to London until the apple championships were over.

Any "pressure that's activity to appear for abutting year is activity to appear afterwards this accommodated and acutely if the burden does appear it agency we've done well, so we can't complain," she said.

But European 400m alone assortment best Hannah Miley batten of the activity in the aggregation affected as the Olympics loomed, adage it was an befalling cipher capital to miss.

"Every accommodated we go to is one footfall afterpiece appear the Olympics," she added.

National achievement administrator and aggregation baton Michael Scott played bottomward expectations for the British team, adage the ambition was to bout the medals booty from the 2007 worlds in Melbourne – one argent and three bronze.