Hannah Miley has been eating, breathing and sleeping the Olympics for so long that she can almost smell the chlorinated water of the Games pool as the London extravaganza looms ever closer.
Four years ago, in Beijing, she admits she was akin to a rabbit in the headlights, overwhelmed by the hype and popping of a thousand flashbulbs.
But, this time around, all the 5am starts, all the tens of thousands of metres she swims every week, all the unstinting labours of the woman herself and "Team Miley", her back-up army of family members, Scottish Institute of Sport support staff, and British Olympic Association mentors, are focused on the 22-year-old becoming a gold medallist once Boris, Seb and Becks have dispensed with the preliminaries.
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