You’ve got to be able to take the bad events with the good ones. You’ve got to learn to deal with them and learn to take as much as you can from those. Have fun and put as much as you can into it. As long as you’ve done your best, that’s all you can do.

I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again.

I loved to do sports when I was young. We were on a family holiday and went sailing. I just loved it. And there, you can say, life began to change for me.

I like to relax a lot the night before a race. I like having people around me. I don’t like being on my own, particularly. Music helps psych you up, too.

I started sailing because I had to stop playing tennis so much, as I had bad knees.