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<\/p>\nFor Emily Seebohm the World Championships were a breakthrough after a number of heartbreaking near misses at major competitions.<\/p>\n
The Australian was second in the 100m backstroke at both the 2012 Olympics and the 2013 World Championships.<\/p>\n
Emily was distraught with her second place in London three years ago but sports psychology work helped release her inner champion in Kazan.<\/p>\n
First up was victory in the 100m before she returned to take the 200m title and seal the backstroke double.<\/p>\n
Now she has a winning mindset that she is not going to lose going into next year\u2019s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is something I\u2019ve got now, and I feel I can\u2019t lose that and I\u2019ll go back from this and train as hard as I can because we all know how much I want that Olympic gold and that will just be a fantastic result for me,\u201d she beamed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel I have always had it in me \u2013 it\u2019s just that I\u2019ve never been able to push to that\u00a0 next level but I think after this meet it will always be remember what I could do here under all that pressure .<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is definitely something I can take into Rio and have in my mind so I think I will definitely feel more comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Learning to win under pressure has been a long journey for Emily but her double in Russia proved she can succeed under the weight of expectation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI definitely have to be more relaxed and I guess dealing with pressure \u00a0has just been fantastic because it\u2019s really stepped me up so much\u00a0 in my preparation for Rio.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s helped so much with dealing with me and my thoughts, dealing with even going in as the 100 backstroke world champion that was more pressure itself.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it was a great race to pull out because if anything there was more pressure on me this time than there was before and I think I just want to show I can deal with that and it just helps fuel the fire I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily explained the approach she has learned to take under sports psychologist Georgia Ridler which involves work on concentration, focus and avoiding distraction.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe does a lot of quiet mind sessions where she helps us learn techniques to switch our minds off and she gave us this technique that I will remember for ever.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have got to breathe in and think of one thing you want to leave in that room and for me it was leaving the fact I did such a good result in the 100 and leaving that in there and not thinking about that again.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I hadn\u2019t thought that much about it, I gave my medals to mum and dad so I didn\u2019t have that as a reminder a well \u2013 I wanted to focus every day as being the first of competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe call it day 1.7 \u2013 it\u2019s not day seven, it\u2019s still day one.\u201d<\/p>\n
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