"I definitely missed being part of the team," she told reporters. "To be back in the green and gold, it really makes my heart beat a little bit faster." Campbell was the red-hot favourite to win the Olympic 100m title in 2016 and led at the turn before fading badly, allowing Canada's Penny Oleksiak and American Simone Manuel to come through and tie for gold. But Campbell, who helped the Australian women win the 4x100m freestyle title in Rio, brushed off questions about her mental strength before the Commonwealth Games swimming competition, which begins Thursday.

"It's not so much the pressure of expectation, because people want you to swim well," she said. "They're not rooting for you to swim badly. They want to see you swim well so they will support you and not put pressure on you." "I've never had a home crowd advantage," added Campbell, whose 100m time at trials was three-tenths of a second quicker than the effort Oleksiak and Manuel clocked to win gold in Rio. "We saw in Glasgow in 2014 that the Scots just lifted. There was something in the air that got them ready to swim fast and I'm really hoping we feel that same energy here."

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Campbell, who is looking to retain the 100m title she won in Glasgow, will get her shot at redemption when she lines up against teenager Oleksiak in Gold Coast, where Campbell's sister Bronte will be a medal threat. Australia, meanwhile, has finished top of the medals table in swimming since the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, and Cate Campbell backed the host nation to continue that dominance. "We do set the standard of the meet," she said. "I'm incredibly proud of this team."

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