On the technical side, there is no problem with the pool,
I’m just so honored to represent our country,
They inspired me when I first started swimming, so, thank you to them. Thank you to everyone,
Me and my suite mate making bracelets in the Olympic village for her Taylor Swift concert because there's always time for Taylor,
@Taylor Swift please tell us you watch swimming."
I try to take every event very individually and just do my work, but starting off for me — getting on the podium — is definitely a great way to start,
To be honest, I came into this with a positive mindset, and I’m coming out quite emotional because of what I just achieved and how proud I am myself and representing my country doing it,
Every single time I get to race on the world stage, I learn more and more about handling it mentally and physically and emotionally and trying not to get too high or too low,
I mean, obviously I’m super happy with this gold,
We are competitors and we’re also teammates. It’s really tough. We both push each other to the limits,
Ultimately, I think other people’s performances are completely out of my control and Kaylee is… one-on-one, she is an absolutely incredible racer and she knows what to do when it matters, but I’m really proud of myself,
It’s been an awesome few days watching all the Aussies get up and race so I just had to put my best foot forward tonight,
To have all this atmosphere, all that adrenaline and be able to perform like, that it’s really special to me and I’m happy with having gone so far,
I don’t normally cry, so I really hope that nobody’s going to see that. But it did come out of me, and it’s obviously just a special moment. I’ve never heard that national anthem at [the] Olympics before and it’s just crazy that it was me standing on a number one podium here for the first time at [the] Olympics,
I think we're always shooting for gold, that's the American standard,
I've been dreaming of being at the Olympics for my whole life. I definitely have more goals and I'm not quite satisfied yet,
There's so many great individual athletes in that team,
I'm not going to lie, I did tell everybody already I was going to do it before,
It feels pretty cool. It's great to be a part of history. Hopefully I can keep the momentum going for the rest of the week,