Friday, August 1, 2014

Glasgow 2014: Michael Jamieson 'let individuals down' by missing gold

Scotland's Michael Jamieson says he let his supporters down with his shock overcome in the 200m breaststroke last.

The Olympic silver medallist and blurb kid of the Games was beaten to gold by individual Scot, 20-year-old Ross Murdoch.

"I truly needed to reimburse that confidence and backing of the individuals," says Glaswegian Jamieson, 25. "It characteristic for your moment response to be similar to you felt you let individuals down."

He included: "I'll take sooner or later off and return stronger. I need to."

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Ross Murdoch wins 200m breaststroke

Ross Murdoch stuns Michael Jamieson to win 200m breaststroke

Jamieson, who turns 26 on Tuesday, demands he is still fit for winning gold at one year from now's World Championships in Russia.

He additionally accepts that breaking the world record for the 200m breaststroke remains an achievable objective.

"I felt an awareness of other's expectations coming into the Games, however it wasn't something I was frightened of," says Jamieson. "I savored the test and took a gander at it as a fortune.

"I need to return next season accepting that I can win gold on the planet champs on the grounds that that is the target. Given the standard in this occasion, its getting to be increasingly hard consistently to get in the main three.

"The times have quite recently proceeded onward such a great amount in the last few seasons. I have to return one year from now as a finer player and utilize this experience to goad me on."

Michael Jamieson on Ross Murdoch:

"I didn't think he was equipped for swimming 2:07. Anyway he has done and it was a splendid execution."

Jamieson still accepts he has "a couple of years left" in the game and says the encounters he has experienced will stand him in great stead.

"I'm ready for anything going into the following couple of years," he says. "With the more youthful gentlemen who have performed so well, their greatest test will be managing their prosperity.

"I'm certain that the picture will change again one year from now. Regardless I think I can get move down there and possibly break the world record. Obviously, Ross is fit for doing it, as well. There's a line."

Jamieson demands that the weight of desire did not get to him. Being in the spotlight was the way he needed it to be.

"I adore being in those high-weight circumstances," he says. "I don't surmise that might be utilized as a reason, yet I can comprehend why individuals believe that.

"For individuals who may not have a lot of learning of swimming, they read the papers and watch the TV and one of the confronts they see is mine. It characteristic for them to feel that I was a dead cert for gold.

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Murdoch in tears on platform

Pleased Murdoch in tears on platform

"I can securely say it wasn't the weight. I was truly cool and agreeable in nature's turf. I was cheerful to attempt to utilize that backing and the swarm to goad me on.

"You need to have a level of self conviction when you go to these occasions and it needs to be indicated like never before in the following 12 months.

"This is the first occasion when I've been in a position where I haven't got the result I needed."

Jamieson adulated Murdoch as a world-class swimmer yet conceded he was "a tad bit stunned" at his rival's winning time of 2 minutes 07.30 seconds.

"I didn't think he was equipped for swimming 2:07," says Jamieson. "Be that as it may he has done and it was a splendid execution.

"We all knew it was going to take a world-class execution to get on the platform and that is the way it went."

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