Fran Halsall: 'I may never get over the disappointment of London 2012'

For one of Britain's best swimmers last year's Olympics were a let-down but a year on she is keeping her head above the water On a beautiful summer afternoon Fran Halsall stretches out her legs, waggles a flip-flop at the end of her tattooed left foot and looks ahead to this month's world championships by suggesting that "Loughborough is almost like Barcelona today". A throaty cackle accompanies her sunlit comparison, for Halsall senses the start of her renewed life as a competitive swimmer. She...