Below is what Chris wrote after he won three gold medals at the Olympics...
I am physically and mentally drained.
The main emotion this morning is less exhilaration and more a mix of relief and exhaustion.
To finally get it all finished is a wonderful feeling.
I can pinpoint times in the last four years when I've gone through real suffering.
Certain training sessions I've done have been simply horrendous. The only thing that gets you through is the thought of the Olympics and the gold medal.
During the competitions I would visualise those sessions and remind myself of everything I've gone through.
If I'd even missed one training session, I would have lined up with doubt and fear in my mind. What would happen if I lost the gold by one thousandth of a second, because there was a session I skipped or didn't give my all to?
Instead, I lined up here knowing no-one had trained harder than me, and that gave me enormous confidence.
It's a really strange feeling today. Every day for as long as I can remember I've woken up thinking about nothing else but the Olympics. It feels so weird telling myself that I don't have to any more.
I should be able to switch off, now that it's all done, but of course I can't.
The habits are too ingrained.
I've got the three gold medals next to me now.
