‘Please don’t call me medal hopeful’

If you didn’t know the back story, there would be questions for Aileen Morrison to answer.

Is she really that negative? Why does she continually put herself down? Are they all just easy words to paste over the hype so she can smoothly get on with the job at hand in London?

At 30, an age when triathletes usually peak, and ranked seventh in the world, just a place behind Olympic favourite Helen Jenkins of Britain, the Derry woman should be a medal hopeful.