‘’‘I think people need to start understanding that it’s not easy to win an Olympic gold medal and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with a silver medal,’‘ said the 24-year-old who took Australia’s tally of second prizes to 12 after seven days of competition. ’‘I was copping questions … (from the media) last night, and the first question I got was, ’‘is it a disappointing result?’'
‘'The team’s happy, I’m happy, the head coach is happy. I’ve got thousands of messages back home that they are happy. The only people that aren’t happy are you guys. So you need to wake up.’'