Australian relay swimmer has fairytale finish to her Olympic career

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Brianna Throssell went out on top, standing on the podium for the first time in her final ever Olympic race after helping Australia to Gold in the 4x200m Freestyle Relay.

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00:00To be honest, tonight trumps everything.

00:02I have been to three Olympics and, you know, Tokyo I was fortunate enough to come home

00:06with a few medals, but just as a heat swimmer, so coming out tonight, racing in front of

00:11that crowd, I don't think I've ever swum in front of a crowd as big or as loud before

00:15and the atmosphere was just electric and I just, I wanted to absorb all of that knowing

00:19that this will be my final Olympics and to stand on the podium is just such an honour.

00:25There was a lot of pressure on that team in Tokyo and we ended up walking away with a

00:28bronze which is such an honour and I was fortunate to be a part of that just in the

00:32heat and I think coming into tonight we also had a bit of pressure on us as reigning world

00:39champions and world record holders to get that gold and get the gold back from the last

00:44Olympics and, yeah, I'm really proud of how the girls swam and incredible job to the girls

00:49this morning as well and, you know, there are so many other incredible teams like USA

00:54and China, so to get up there and just race our hearts out was such an honour and getting

01:01the gold is, yeah, just getting the gold for Australia was awesome.

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