There is nothing wrong with that. Simply because I am not a dietician. Mark, in an interview you gave recently, you said, and I paraphrase, that you won your races before you ever hit the water by making the other swimmers believe they were swimming for second. It appears that Ian Thorpe has achieved the same mental edge as you. Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it.
Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.
I was honored. It is not an event that you compete for, that is an event that someone honors you for your career. Well, it's hard to say if he will be swimmer of the century since we are in the first year and there are 99 more years. But to be swimmer of the century you need to set yourself aside from doing something special, from the ordinary. In my case it was winning seven gold medals and seven world records in the 1972 Olympics, along with having a career of 35 world records and dominating my events for six years.