Petria Thomas

Well it’s finally time to head to Athens. The swim team is packing up their base in Germany and getting ready to move into the Athens Olympic Village. The big move will take place tomorrow (Sunday) and everyone is excited about finally getting to the Olympic city. It is quite a logistical challenge to move around 60 or so people with tonnes of luggage, but hopefully tomorrow will go as smoothly as possible.

The camp here in Germany has gone pretty well, both for me personally, and the team. The weather has been great and we have even managed to get in some outdoor training sessions to prepare us for the sun in Athens. The team has bonded really well together which will no doubt help us all when the pressure in on during the Games. Even though swimming is largely an individual sport, it is amazing to see how a very diverse range of swimmers, support staff and coaches can come together and work for the good of the 'team'.

This time in a week I should have completed my first day of racing! I hope all goes well. I feel like I have had a very good preparation, so hopefully that will translate into some fast races for me.

Thanks again for all your support. I hope I can make you all proud.

Petria