00:00Great Britain's Caden Cunningham has vowed to become the King of Taekwondo, despite being
00:07forced to settle for silver in the men's 80kg category at the Paris Olympics.
00:14Yeah, I'll be trying to take it in as much as I can because of the experience, but I'll
00:22be very much so there with the mindset of I am the one who is going to become Olympic
00:25champion on August the 10th.
00:28Caden continued his remarkable trajectory by beating three world champions en route
00:34to the gold medal match, which he lost narrowly to Iran's Aran Slemani.
00:40So could he predict he would get this far?
00:43Let's see what he said before the Olympic Games and whether he believed he could add
00:47to the nine Olympic medals won so far by Team GB in Taekwondo.
00:53But for myself, a lot of people there are people I've either fought before or I've seen
00:59on the circuit, and I hold myself to a high regard.
01:01I am one of the best heavyweights, so it's a stage for me to get built Taekwondo for
01:09the UK, but also earn what I've been working towards for so long and win that gold.
01:16One thing that stood out about Caden was how relaxed and at home he felt, despite it being
01:21his very first Olympic Games.
01:24There was no chance the atmosphere and pressure on his shoulders was going to get to him.
01:30So yeah, the nerves, everyone has their different level of nerves.
01:34I assumed once I started getting towards the top and I won my first title of something
01:38and I won the first big comp, that I'd settle, but it seems to have only doubled.
01:43So I assume by the Olympics I'll be just as nervous, if not, well, likely more so.
01:49But from the competition, I'm expecting and hoping it's smoothly run.
01:52There's no interruptions, there's no problems like that, and it's easy to watch for viewers
01:56at home.
01:57One hundred percent, I'm going to add to that.
02:00Bradley Sinner will be competing before me, so he's going to become the first male Olympic
02:04champion.
02:05But I won't mind taking the second one, as long as we both get that gold and what we're
02:11deserving to earn.
02:12My dad's always been into martial arts.
02:14My brother's tried it a bit as well.
02:17And then round about when I was 10, 11, I went to a children's international competition
02:21in Germany and I won that.
02:24I was deadly nervous for that because it was foreign people.
02:27I've never fought outside of Britain before.
02:29How sort of are you pleased that it's a place that's quite close to home as well for the
02:34Games and it's in a fantastic city to make your debut?
02:38Yeah, yeah.
02:39It being in Paris, it's just a little short trip over the water.
02:43The time difference isn't a lot.
02:46And yeah, I wouldn't mind wherever it is.
02:47Any competition I've been to in Paris has been quite well run and there's loads of fans
02:51and they're very vocal.
02:53So I think it'll be a good place to have a tag on a competition.
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