"I really just told myself, 'Keep your head down, keep your form good and keep driving to the finish, '" Rupp said afterward.

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And this is one of the things that I told myself could come if I just keep working hard every day.

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' So I told myself, no results anymore, just skating.

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"It was very frustrating just having to wait, but I kept myself fit, " Fa'afili told BBC Radio Leeds.

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"I just ask myself what kind of man is it that could do this, " he told our correspondent.

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