Olympics 2008

I'm a cross-country mountain bike racer, competing at my third Olympics in Beijing.

I finished 23rd in Sydney eight years ago, and 17th in Athens in 2004. Over the last few seasons I have found my best condition and improved at a world level with a few top 10s and a silver at the Commonwealth Games.

The aim at the Olympics is to ride my bike faster than I've ever ridden it before.

Hopefully that'll put me in the mix of the race, which is where you quite often get a front group of seven or eight guys forming, and then the race is won from that. I'd like to be in that group.