"A lot of times when you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself, " he said.

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And, you know, one of the things that I'm always battling - and I've only been on the national stage for a couple of years now - is that tendency to edit yourself so much that, at a certain point, you stop sounding like a regular person and you start taking on, you know, the persona of, you know, those bad politicians in TV movies...

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