Seebohm broke down at a press conference after Olympic final loss. Source: Crystal Ja / AAP
BACKSTROKE star Emily Seebohm's lowest Olympic moment has become her greatest motivator as she prepares to renew hostilities with the teen star attempting to become USA's new Michael Phelps.
Seebohm and 18-year-old Missy Franklin launched their intense rivalry at the Olympics last year when the US teen upset the Australian in the final of the 100m backstroke to snatch the gold medal.
It left Seebohm heartbroken and distraught on pool deck knowing her heat time would have been good enough for the gold medal but she failed to execute her race properly.
Now she gets her chance at revenge when she confronts Franklin for the first time since London and the US star attempting a Phelps-like eight race program here in Barcelona.
Seebohm looms as one of the biggest hurdles blocking Franklin's path to eight gold medals.
"We're pretty close to each other, we're pretty friendly. It's not like it's a bad rivalry at all. It motivates me to go faster and I'm sure it's the same for her," Seebohm said.
"It's still a big battle between us and there is a lot coming up in the 100 backstroke so you know you never really set anyone out of the field but you always keep your eye on your main rival."
Seebohm's main focus here is to build her races from heats to semis and then go her fastest time in the final.
In London she did the reverse, getting marginally slower per race and it cost her the gold medal.
"I just wish I could have done my heat time in the final but that is not what I was meant to do," Seebohm said.
"That is obviously something I want to do this time around and that is probably my main goal for this meet to just go faster and get better that way and to get my confidence up and to tell myself that I can do it.
"I know my turn in the final wasn't my fastest turn so I've worked a lot on my turns and also it's a lot of something to do with myself, the belief I have in myself and confidence that I can do it.
"I've just got to work on that and you know obviously take a lot from the Olympics last year and hopefully I can bring it into racing here.
"I will just come back and get stronger and that will obviously give me a lot of motivation come next Olympics and the years before that."
Seebohm has her own hectic program this week with three individual swims and two relays, but her focus is entirely on her main event and she is confident she will be able to blast out close to her personal best time putting her right in the mix for gold.
"I would hope so, I have trained really hard and done some really good times in training so I don't see why I won't be at that level," she said.
"I'm going for the best times that I can get. If I can get close to or better than what I was at Olympics then I will be pretty happy with that."
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