Rolls faced tough competition in the World Championship final, but the moment he knew he had won he celebrated by jumping into the course’s water element.<\/p>\n
“Straight after it was almost like relief because during the competition, it goes on for about an hour, and during that time I am telling myself to stay calm, try not to feel any emotion, not get excited or nervous,” he continued.<\/p>\n
“As soon as you realise you won, it’s like shock and you still can’t believe it… you’re questioning it.”<\/p>\n
Rolls said standing on the podium receiving his medal was an “emotional” moment as he reflected on his journey and those that had supported him.<\/p>\n
He arrived back in the UK on Sunday morning and was greeted at home by friends and family, along with some champagne.<\/p>\n
He now plans to rest and heal a small knee injury before looking ahead to next year’s season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rolls faced tough competition in the World Championship final, but the moment he knew he had won he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-254459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}