« on: July 14, 2008, 09:05:57 AM »
Hear no evil, see no evil, feel no pressure … and breathe in that fresh Swiss mountain air. Craig Mottram is relaxed at 1822 metres above sea level, and nothing is distracting him.
Not the pressure on his shoulders to almost single-handedly carry Australia's Olympic track hopes now that Jana Rawlinson has withdrawn from Beijing. Nor the continued success of his main rival for 5000m gold, world champion Bernard Lagat, at the US Olympic trials.
Of Lagat's recent form, Mottram said: "I'm in St Moritz so we don't have English television, and internet is limited. I have seen the results. I haven't and don't intend to [watch it]. It's irrelevant."
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