By V. Krishnaswamy. Beijing, China, 05:33 PM IST

Australian swimmers Stephanie Rice and Eamon Sullivan, who had decided to suspend their romantic relationship to concentrate on the Olympic Games, can now get back to their old situation after a terrific show at the Water Cube.

Before the Games, Rice, who loves partying, and Sullivan agreed to cool their romance in order to concentrate on the Olympics, according to Australian media.

'Basically, we are just focussing. I guess (we are) being a bit selfish that we want to swim to the best of our ability,' Sullivan was quoted as saying. 'We both mutually agreed that being together is something that probably won't work during this month. So we decided to have a break.'

Rice captured Australia's first gold medal of the Games in the 400m individual medley, while Sullivan Tuesday broke the world 100m freestyle record when he led off the Australian team in the men's 4x100m freestyle relay. The Aussie team came third.

By V. Krishnaswamy (Staff Writer, © IANS)