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What an incredible Olympics for our modern pentathlon team. Heather Fell and I were excited from the moment we set foot in the athletes' village to the moment we left - and that moment came far too soon.

All five of our pentathlon events took place on one day, the last Friday of the Games, so we only had Saturday and Sunday to enjoy ourselves properly.

But the advantage of competing so late was that the more medals Team GB won, the less nervous I felt. It took the pressure off because suddenly nobody was looking to the final few events in desperation for medals.

is a brilliant result for her, and for our sport.

We've had a great last two years now - beat our initial target of one, and a medal is what we had to produce from the girls' point of view. My seventh place shows we've got strength in depth in the team.

I'm 90% pleased with my result. Seventh is a good result in pentathlon, especially at an Olympic Games, but I know my fencing was a bit below par and that was the difference between seventh and a place on the podium.

You've probably seen . I was there and it wasn't pretty to watch.

But it helped to take some of the stress out of the event for me - I thought that if it was going to be that bad for everyone, then maybe I could take advantage and move up from 20th into a medal position.

The organisers made some changes for the women's event - for a start they took the worst horses out, and in the end I really got on with my horse. The other two girls who rode it didn't have very good rounds at all, so I obviously rode it well and I'm pleased with that.

The conditions were much nicer, too. There was a lot of talk beforehand about heat and humidity but I didn't notice any difference - we did our running event in the evening, and I've ridden horses in much stuffier conditions than that too.

Things will be a bit subdued next year without an Olympics, but I'm used to that - it's what my sport is like, and it means I have to set my sights on London 2012. After my experience in Beijing I am so keen to compete there, but I know four years is a long time and I've got to train hard to stay in the mix.

It's just a shame I didn't get to see the Beijing shops but, to be honest, being around our gold medallists in the village was too exciting.

I met Chris Hoy, some of the rowers and Rebecca Adlington. Heather and I wanted our picture taken with everybody! Rebecca Adlington's lovely, we got on with the rowers really well, and Chris Hoy even let me hold his medals to have my picture taken.

Being part of Team GB and mixing with athletes from other sports was a large part of what made the week so special.

I'm not sure what's next for me now. I'm enjoying a rest at the minute, then it's the last competition of the season, the World Cup final, in four weeks' time.

But after the Olympics that's not a huge priority, I'm just going to maintain my fitness and have a nice competition to end the season.

After that it's winter training - but hopefully with a few parties thrown in along the way to finish this brilliant year off nicely!

Katy Livingston was speaking to Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Sport's Ollie Williams