Goodison revved up for Games

The 34-year-old heads into London 2012 looking to retain his laser crown from Beijing, and got a sneak peek as to what to expect as he took to the Weymourh waters 50 days before returning for the real thing.

However, it wasn't the warm-up Goodison was after as he agonisingly missed out on the podium in fourth, Australian Tom Slingsby taking the gold.

Slingsby has won every event held at Weymouth since the last Games and looks set to be Goodison's main threat for that Olympic crown.

But Goodison, who did a similar thing before topping the podium in Beijing, is vowing to get one over his rival when it really matters, especially after what happened at Weymouth.

He said: "In the medal race I handled everything really well round the first mark, then me and Tom got a bit further in front of everyone else and I though it was all quite easy then," he said.

"But I think he employed a bit of team racing tactics where he was more interested in trying to sort his mates out and slow me down which I was a little bit annoyed at.

"And at the end it was a bit of a mess up on the finish line and I'm quite frustrated now.

"I'm pretty wound up after what happened between us and I think that's going to focus my attention and make me train harder and get better."

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