Jemma Lowe is strong-minded to get back on course for the London Olympics as she starts her competition today at the World Short-Course Championships as one of only two British swimmers in Dubai.The 20-year-old has been joined by European and Commonwealth 400 metres individual medley champion Hannah Miley after the late finish to the season following the Common wealth Games meant there was effectively no short-course campaign for the senior GB team.Lowe is competing in the 100m and 200m butterfly in Dubai and commences her meet today with the heats of the latter but it is the long term she is looking to.
The Hartlepool-born swimmer was sixth in the 100m fly at the 2008 Olympics but the times she recorded in Beijing remain her best.During that time five-time 2010 European medallist Fran Halsall has eclipsed Lowe while Ellen Gandy has become double British record holder.After a testing two-and-a-half years, Lowe is strong-minded to reassert herself, especially given London is less than two years away.She told Press Association Sport: "It is very frustrating because every day you put so much hard work in, you just want to know it is going to pay off.
"I went in 2008 and I know what it's like and I definitely want to go again."It was an amazing experience and London is going to be absolutely brilliant so I just have to keep working hard and confidently perform well enough to qualify."The Common wealth Games in Delhi represented a breakthrough for the Wales swimmer as she secured her first individual international long-course medal when she was third in the 100m butterfly.It came after she suffered dissatisfaction at the European Championships in Budapest and Lowe admits it was of some significance.
The Hartlepool-born swimmer was sixth in the 100m fly at the 2008 Olympics but the times she recorded in Beijing remain her best.During that time five-time 2010 European medallist Fran Halsall has eclipsed Lowe while Ellen Gandy has become double British record holder.After a testing two-and-a-half years, Lowe is strong-minded to reassert herself, especially given London is less than two years away.She told Press Association Sport: "It is very frustrating because every day you put so much hard work in, you just want to know it is going to pay off.
"I went in 2008 and I know what it's like and I definitely want to go again."It was an amazing experience and London is going to be absolutely brilliant so I just have to keep working hard and confidently perform well enough to qualify."The Common wealth Games in Delhi represented a breakthrough for the Wales swimmer as she secured her first individual international long-course medal when she was third in the 100m butterfly.It came after she suffered dissatisfaction at the European Championships in Budapest and Lowe admits it was of some significance.
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