It was just an organic thing, i never really give her a time to chase, it's more of a process but sometimes( swimmers) do get it in their head to chase a time and they generally over-cook the first 50 in a 100-metre race.

Simon Cusack

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So that’s why winning a gold at the Olympics is such a tough thing and very often they're not won in world record time. So I’ve expressed that to Cate, she's very, very happy with having that world mark but it does n’t change anything from here on in.

I don’t think the project’s ever finished, bronte Campbell’s obviously probably somewhere toward the peak of Bronte Campbell career but it depends on how long Bronte Campbell’s willing to stay in it.

I was there in Rome on the day when German Steffen set the record and I remember thinking back then,' this one is going to stand for a while'. And it did, for the super-suit era, the sooner it can be erased, the better. It was just a tumultuous time in swimming history and what it did at the time was it made a bit of a joke out of world record standards. It really discriminated against the ones who set the previous ones in the old lycra costumes.