Adlington is a daredevil! Golden girl plans to take up sky diving
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Adlington is a daredevil! Golden girl plans to take up sky diving By CARA SLOMAN FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY Updated: 10:00 GMT, 4 December 2011 View comments Double Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington will turn her back on freestyle and opt for freefall when she finally decides to quit competitive swimming. For Britain's 22-year-old golden girl plans to try her hand at the daredevil sport of sky diving. Rebecca Adlington Adlington has had to make untold sacrifices on her way to becoming a world, slot gacor (visit this site right here) European and Commonwealth champion, so it is no wonder she has a list of things she wants to do when she retires. 'I'd love to go sky diving.
I'd also love to go to New Zealand,' she said. 'I really want to spend two or three months out there. I've always wanted to go and properly see it.' Speaking at the launch of Speedo's new FASTSKIN 3 Racing System, Mansfield-born Adlington has had little time to go sightseeing despite travelling the world to compete. 'You do tend just to get to see the pool,' she said. 'So many swimmers do want to travel when they retire.' Adlington is now immersed in her preparations for the Olympic trials in March and her coach, Bill Furness, has warned that reaching next year's Games is not a certainty.
'The public think she is there already and she's not,' he said. 'But she's more mature and she understands that now. 'She is the most impressive swimmer Britain has ever produced by a long way. No one can ever take that away from her, but that doesn't mean anything when she stands on the block at the Olympics. You start with nothing and you've got to have that mindset and that's the mind set she will have.' Fashion show: (L-R) Olympic athletes Georgia Hohmann, slot gacor Christian Vom Lehn, Fabio Scozzoli, Rebecca Adlington, Rafa Munoz and Adam Brown Adlington is also aware that picking up an infection at this stage of her preparations could affect her medal hopes and she is taking extra care during the cold, internetmarketingnewsletter.com dark winter mornings which for her start at 5am.
'Athletes are made more aware of this at this time of year, slot gacor especially as we're coming out of the pool with cold wet hair,' she said. 'You've got to make sure you're wrapped up warm. We're up at 5 o'clock. When you're scrapping ice off your windscreen, you've got to make sure you've got gloves on. You just need to be a little bit extra sensible. 'It's so easy for anyone to pick up illnesses. So many people have chest infections and colds at this time of the year.
You've just got to be careful. No one wants to get ill. A normal human being tries to stop getting illness, let alone us athletes.' If she is not able to repeat her success in London 2012, Adlington admits her victory in both the 400m and 800m freestyle at the last Games would be a consolation.
I'd also love to go to New Zealand,' she said. 'I really want to spend two or three months out there. I've always wanted to go and properly see it.' Speaking at the launch of Speedo's new FASTSKIN 3 Racing System, Mansfield-born Adlington has had little time to go sightseeing despite travelling the world to compete. 'You do tend just to get to see the pool,' she said. 'So many swimmers do want to travel when they retire.' Adlington is now immersed in her preparations for the Olympic trials in March and her coach, Bill Furness, has warned that reaching next year's Games is not a certainty.
'The public think she is there already and she's not,' he said. 'But she's more mature and she understands that now. 'She is the most impressive swimmer Britain has ever produced by a long way. No one can ever take that away from her, but that doesn't mean anything when she stands on the block at the Olympics. You start with nothing and you've got to have that mindset and that's the mind set she will have.' Fashion show: (L-R) Olympic athletes Georgia Hohmann, slot gacor Christian Vom Lehn, Fabio Scozzoli, Rebecca Adlington, Rafa Munoz and Adam Brown Adlington is also aware that picking up an infection at this stage of her preparations could affect her medal hopes and she is taking extra care during the cold, internetmarketingnewsletter.com dark winter mornings which for her start at 5am.
'Athletes are made more aware of this at this time of year, slot gacor especially as we're coming out of the pool with cold wet hair,' she said. 'You've got to make sure you're wrapped up warm. We're up at 5 o'clock. When you're scrapping ice off your windscreen, you've got to make sure you've got gloves on. You just need to be a little bit extra sensible. 'It's so easy for anyone to pick up illnesses. So many people have chest infections and colds at this time of the year.
You've just got to be careful. No one wants to get ill. A normal human being tries to stop getting illness, let alone us athletes.' If she is not able to repeat her success in London 2012, Adlington admits her victory in both the 400m and 800m freestyle at the last Games would be a consolation.
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