Britain's Guy goes from tears of despair to Olympic gold

James Guy reflects on a big personal turnaround as he wins in the pool

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00:00I felt quite lost last year in 2023. I lost a lot of faith in what I was doing.

00:05I wasn't too sure whether I was going to carry on past 2024,

00:10but having that kind of change of programme and that just different environment,

00:14I feel like sometimes Olympic year people want to change and I wanted to do that.

00:18So I think having that new environment was also very, very important.

00:22So everyone sees the highs of the sport,

00:25but none actually see the lows of actually how you feel.

00:28I've come back crying.

00:29I remember in Thu Quoc last year, crying on the phone to my girlfriend,

00:32just didn't know what to do.

00:34Then obviously this year, in the form of my life.

00:36So it just shows that if you're doing the right stuff and the right work,

00:39then you're happy, which is very, very important.

00:42I think the balance of that is probably more important than anything else.