Proof is in the pool: Alicia Coutts FIVE-TIMES Olympic medallist Alicia Coutts has urged her teammates to let their swimming do the talking when the national trials start in Adelaide tomorrow, to prove that the Australian team is getting back on track after the troubled London Olympic campaign. Coutts, whose five medals in London was the best individual haul by an Australian, said the trials were an opportunity for the top swimmers to turn the page after six months of instability and controversy in the sport. "Obviously, there have been negative things after London and I think it's a good chance to let our swimming speak for us, rather than that negative publicity and negative actions," Coutts said. I have always been someone who lets my swimming speak for itself and this is a good chance for others to do that, too. Swimming Australia had hoped to have bedded down the behavioural issues which undermined the team's performance in London before the trials began but the Australian Olympic Committee's investigation of the use of the banned hypnotic drug Stilnox by members of the men's 4x100m freestyle team is still ongoing. Coutts said she would not be distracted by the ongoing issue and was intent on competing well in Adelaide. "There's nothing I can do to change what's happened so I am going to put it behind me and do my best," she said. She will be too busy to think about much except her trials campaign, with seven events on her schedule over as many days. Coutts is entered for her usual events, the 100m butterfly, 200m individual medley and 100m freestyle, plus all four 50m events. Her focus is primarily on the 100m butterfly and 200m individual medley, but she wants to secure her place in the 4x100m freestyle team and she said it would also be "fun" to swim a 50m event at the world titles in July. Coutts is the reigning Commonwealth 100m freestyle champion but said was no longer needed for the individual sprint, with the rise of Melanie Schlanger (fourth at the Olympics) and Cate Campbell (fastest in the world this year) at domestic level. "I was only doing it (before the London Olympics) because there was no one else doing it," she said. In the years leading up to London, the standard had dropped off but the strength is back now.