feels no pressure heading to the Olympic Pool tomorrow morning.

The 19-year-old Shippenburg College (Pennsylvania) student, who also opened Bermuda's participation at the Pan Am Games in Cuba last year, is scheduled to swim in the third of seven heats in the 100 metres breaststroke.

"I'm trying not to think about it too much,'' he said. "You lose sleep and you just can't think about anything else. You try to keep busy doing other things, like hanging out with the guys.

You can't not get hyped. You've got all these people around and you are just sitting there at night time and saying like, `This is the Olympics' and it's going through your mind over and over again. It's hard to fall asleep.'' Flook will stay in the Olympic Village whilst the opening ceremonies are taking place tonight. The swimming is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. on Sunday with the 100m breaststroke tucked in behind the women's 100m freestyle and ahead of the women's 400m individual medley and men's 200m freestyle.

"I don't really mind going first. I don't feel the pressure that much,'' said Flook. "Maybe if I was going to the opening ceremonies I would have got psyched up more for the race, but I know a lot of the other breaststrokers aren't going as well.'' Flook's opponents have not been announced yet but national coach Gareth Davies has placed the youngster in a seeding category best suited for a personal best performance.

"I'm in a heat with two or three others going at 1:05,'' he said. "Gareth put me in for a 1:05.9 and what I'm going to try and do is win that heat so I can get my best time.'' Flook's personal best is also a Bermuda record, 1:05.93 set at the national championships in June at the end of a gruelling college season.

"After our national championships I felt a little tired because I had a really long season,'' he added. "When I came here for a couple of days, because of jet lag, I was feeling a little heavy in the water. but this morning and yesterday I was swimming really well.

"My times were quite fast. The fastest 50 I have ever done was this morning -- about 30 point. I was just feeling strong and not really trying to pound it out and that's still unshaved and with a big drag suit on as well, so Gareth was pretty impressed with that. I feel good and strong.'' Flook actually qualified for the Olympics while at Shippenburg where he was the fastest breaststroker on the team.

"Going away and training with guys so much bigger than you helps you a lot. I was training with the guy who had the state record, who was a monster in practice. I tend to be a little lazy in practice sometimes and he just pushes you the whole time.

"As long as there is somebody there to push you, which is a good help because when you train at home there are not too many people to train with because we don't have the big programmes as they do in the (United) States.