The Young Australian of 2014 is 21 year old Jacqueline Freney, a paralympic swimmer who won an impressive eight gold medals at the London 2012 Paralympic games, the most of any Paralympian in a single games.
She is one of Britain's most successful sportswomen and a double Olympic gold-medal winner, but the swimmer Rebecca Adlington has revealed that Twitter trolls repeatedly accused her of letting the country down after she won bronze in London 2012.
"I can be very candid [during interviews]," says Alan Kipping-Ruane, a former US navy rescue swimmer, adding that he will often clarify the questions asked of him.
As a keen swimmer I enjoyed Pondlife by Al Alvarez (Bloomsbury).
But I'm going to pick the first Thursday night in the pool, when Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps fought for the title of the greatest all-round swimmer at the Games.
As Britain's medal-winning Olympians – including cyclist Bradley Wiggins, heptathlete Jessica Ennis and Paralympic swimmer Ellie Simmonds – are showered with New Year honours, there is growing suspicion that the coalition is trying to conceal the fall-off in sports provision in schools since it came to power.
In June 2014, the Olympic gold-medalist swimmer Rebecca Adlington revealed that abuse on Twitter had harmed her self-confidence in the wake of the London Olympics.
I was a swimmer back then and hadn't trained much for the bike and run.
At the moment, the emphasis is on the coaching, which takes place in an endless pool (a small space where the swimmer works against the current) near London's Paddington, and then, for the running and cycling part, five minutes away in Hyde Park.
There was a Lindsey Stone volleyball player, a Lindsay Stone competitive swimmer.
The dress-for-success and the mock job interviews that Kipping-Ruane, a former US navy rescue swimmer, endured during his transition assistance program left him wanting more.
