[Brett] All I care about is you and what's coming for you!
That's all I give a shit about.
[Brett] Two, three, hut!
[Cody] I'm not by nature combative or confrontational.
All part of the journey, man.
[Brett] I've got a lot of frustration built up, man.
So do you, so...
[exhales] I don't know if you let yours out, but I let mine out.
-Maybe you can punch me, if you like. -[Cody chuckles]
-It's all right. -[Brett] Punch me in the gut.
[Cody] I'm more peaceful
and perform my best when I'm calm and just kind of wanna
self-express rather than dominate or beat somebody,
or this and that.
When I first met Brett,
he was very intent on testing my willingness
to do this for real
and how far he could push me.
[Brett panting] Let's go!
[Brett] This is the kind of shit I'm talking about.
To be an Olympic athlete, this is exactly what it's about.
This stuff right here.
[panting]
Hey, you got a look in your eye there, young man.
That's what I like.
Even if it's hatred towards me, I like it.
[chuckles]
-There's that punch in the gut you wanted. -[chuckles]
[panting]
In my eyes, there's gives and gets with everything.
I'm sacrificing a certain amount of,
you know, years that I could apply to furthering my music career
by pursuing a career in swimming, in sport.
But, uh, you know, going the other way,
I may live with the regret of never having tried.
[Hanson] 2021 has thrown up a lot of challenges for all these athletes.
And we've seen Cody, who's training by himself.
He's in LA one day, he's in Orlando the next.
Someone like Bronte Campbell, who swims by herself at Port Macquarie Pool
when she decides to relocate from Sydney to Brisbane,
but she can't get into Brisbane because of COVID.
And Kyle, who's in his group with Marion
at the South Australia Institute of Sport.
He's coming off an injury.
He's coming off a checkered four years
with his heart operations, his shoulder operation.
That's what it's all about. You've gotta be able to sacrifice
and adapt.
They're the keys to a COVID preparation for these athletes
getting ready for this year's Tokyo Olympics.
[music playing]
[Peter] All right, just your own stuff for a couple of minutes,
then we'll jump in, eh?
So, bit of group warm-up then we'll split up for the swimming pool.
For the 100 guys, little bit of fast stuff.
[Kyle] This week's been the longest week I've had in such a long time.
Sunday, I trained twice, and normally Sunday's our day off.
[Peter] Here we go. Two, one, up.
[Thorpe] When I was, I think, 13,
training was 10 two-hour sessions,
um, every week in the pool.
And when you get home from swimming training,
when you've basically gone straight from school, um,
you have a meal, and you go to bed.
And for a lot of people, that doesn't sound like
a great kind of existence,
but they're the kind of sacrifices that you choose to make.
All right, timing these four the same.
[Kyle] The hardest thing for me is my brain.
When I'm swimming,
I gotta move my left shoulder, my brain goes, "That'll hurt."
[Peter] We'll get a watch on these four guys.
[Kyle] Now I'm trying to force my way back without being strong enough.
I'm having problems, so I need to strengthen
all the muscles and parts around my shoulder to take the load.
[Peter] Two, one, up!
[Kyle] I pride myself on that hard work,
and when I can't do it, I get stressed massively.
[Peter] Five, six...
What am I gonna do racing-wise in the relay camp?
I don't wanna go too hard 'cause I'll get too excited.
[Peter] It'll be some changeovers.
We'll have to just monitor the changeovers on the Monday.
And one type of activity, and you go into another activity.
Yeah.
So, some will be just doing a changeover,
some will be, uh, different games and stuff.
That'll be a problem though, 'cause I wanna win it.
You know what I mean? I'll most probably just train to...
protect the body for the three weeks.
It's a difficult one when I know how close that relationship is
with Kyle and his coach. Um...
You should listen to your coach 95% of the time.
And I do believe that.
And 5% of the time, it's for you.
You don't have to win it. You know what I mean?
But you might need to participate
and swim at an appropriate level to where your shoulder's at.
-Yeah, that'll be tough. -Yeah.
-Every challenge is. -What's the point?
In swimming to lose?
I'm not saying swim to lose, swim to improve your shoulder.
-Yeah. All right. See you tonight. -See you, big fella.
[James] Hello, Kyle.
Hey, buddy, how are you?
It's good, thanks, pal. How are you?
Um, yeah, I think I'm just a bit fatigued, to be honest.
-Mm-hmm. -This is day number 13 straight, I think.
Talk me through what you're feeling around the front of the shoulder.
It's the top of the shoulder through the AC joint.
The front of the shoulder's settled down.
-The knees are the most problematic. -Tell me about the knees.
Knee's just sore still.
-Worse or same? -Probably worse.
Push your knees back straight for me.
Tighten your quads, Kyle. Hard. What do you feel?
Hmm... Fatigue. Probably a little bit through the left side, I reckon.
We gotta work on your recovery strategies.
-Yeah, I know. -Time. Yeah.
That's the thing with swimming. You don't get recovery in swimming.
Just go through. I once had one day off in 14 days.
[chuckles]
It's good coming back eight weeks post-surgery, and one day off.
One problem is you love it.
-I know. -That's a problem.
Don't wanna miss it.
We probably just need to just ease off a little bit on the accelerator.
Just have a bit of an 80, 90% week,
then wriggle up again from there,
as opposed to a full-on.
So, for me, even I'm realizing now, with my old age,
that I have to be a bit smarter and wiser with things.
You need the recovery.
Like, you plug your phone charger in, you recharge it.
We need to plug you in, recharge you.
I said to Bish this morning,
I don't go in there to lose training sessions.
I race from the warm-up, until the cool down.
It's like a mental game to win everything.
Given there's no medals on the end of this,
we might just need to reframe.
That's where your sports psych will come in
and help you with the reframing.
But if I'm standing right on the box with a racing suit on,
I'm not not trying.
I'm not losing against the guys I have to race in six months to get on the team.
I understand that.
But keep in mind, there's a time and a place for that,
and it doesn't have to be every session.
Rewiring the brain, it's a tough one.
[Bronte] I still find it weird when kids come up to me, and they're like,
"Me and my sister wanna be like you. We're sisters too."
-Morning. -Morning.
How are we? Good?
-Yep. -Good.
[Bronte] I'm like, "That's really sweet."
Or when kids start crying,
you're like, "Relax! Breathe, it's fine. It's just me."
I'm still the 7-year-old that used to look up to others.
That's still me as well.
[indistinct chatter]
So, I just think back to when I was a kid.
I wanted to do seven sessions a week.
My parents were like,
"This is not happening, you're seven." [chuckles]
Like, chill out. There are no seven-year-old Olympians.
Just, like, take a step back.
Like, cool off.
I trained in a 25-meter pool...
[indistinct]
...from when I was seven until I went to my first Olympics.
Like, I did that.
In Malawi, um, my grandma used to teach the local kids in her backyard pool.
Mum used to teach us in our backyard pool.
Now, look, it probably wasn't huge, but I was little, so it seemed huge.
It had this scary deep end and a big wall you could jump off,
which I was the youngest one in my family to jump off the wall.
I'm still very proud about that one.
And we had the lake in Malawi.
They call it the Calendar Lake
'cause it's 52 miles across and 365 miles long.
So, it's huge. I used to love going down there.
It's got the beach, you swim.
I was always scared of the hippo.
There was a hippo that used to hang out.
There's freshwater crocodiles in there as well and stuff,
but it was the hippos that we were always really scared of.
It's always just been a part of fun and play
and handed down through the women in our family.
This love of the water, and onto me.
[Bronte] This is one of my favorite drills.
Before Olympic Games, everything. I always do this.
You go 12 kicks and then one stroke as powerful as you can make it.
Twelve kicks and then two strokes really powerful.
They're quite fast strokes, but still trying to keep power,
so not just ripping through the water, then 12 kicks, three strokes.
[Bronte] You can't push 'em to do it. They've gotta wanna do it.
But apart from that, I mean, I hope...
I hope I pass on that love of the water
and the freedom you feel in the water,
which my grandma gave to my mum, my mum gave it to me,
so, I would hope to pass that on.
Probably the biggest thing with the turn is,
as you're going into your last stroke, it finishes into your turn.
I try and get my wall time between .18 and .22.
My races are won by hundredths of a second.
So, if I'm spending .25 on the wall
and I don't win my race by .03, that's because of that turn.
I'm aware that there are young kids watching.
I don't wanna stand up and say,
"If you miss out by 5/100ths of a second and being on the podium,
"you're not good enough and you should be really upset with that.
"Despite all the effort that you've put in."
I am proud of how I performed in Rio.
I stressed that point in the media so hard
because it's not the narrative you're supposed to say.
When you don't win a medal,
you're not supposed to say that you're happy.
You're supposed to be devastated, and everyone else is...
Because everyone else is, and that's fine,
everyone else wanted you to win,
but not as much as you did.
Did you ever lose motivation?
Um, the biggest thing with motivation for me has been injuries.
So, I injured my hip.
I had hip surgery way back when I was 15, um,
and then injured my shoulder in 2016.
I decided, as soon as I finished Comm Games,
doesn't matter what happened, I was taking three months off.
I finished Comm Games. I swam the fastest that I'd ever swum.
My lead in was probably the best I'd ever had.
And a lot of it was because I'd given myself an end date.
I was, like, "You're in pain now,
"but in two months' time, you can stop and have a rest,
"and your mind and your body can recover."
What I'm saying is, when your motivation goes really low,
to the point where I was, you've gotta change something.
[Bronte] Swimming's so brutal.
You just can't hang all your happiness for a meet on the result.
There's got to be more to it. Be there for something else.
[Hanson] The fact that Ian Thorpe wants to use his name
for the betterment of all the platforms he works with,
it's credit to him.
He'll wanna leave a legacy in the pool,
and he will do in general life as well, and that's wonderful.
[Thorpe] I'm meeting Anna Brown. She works for Equality Australia.
I worked with her on Marriage Equality,
but I've continued working with her on some of the issues that face,
um, all the entire LGBTIQ community.
One of the things that is coming up
is actually about the Religious Discrimination Bill.
So, um, thank you so much for helping out.
This is going to take a fight.
We really need to gear up.
We need to be in Canberra every week that we can
to make sure they know that the community won't stand for this.
Our strategy is still to build awareness about the damage the bill has caused.
As soon as you say to people,
"Your tax payer dollars is funding discrimination
"against LGBTIQ people, and women, and unmarried people,
"and potentially people with disabilities,"
they get very upset.
Yep. Good. Let's make 'em upset.
[chuckling] Yeah, that's the point.
When I did accomplish the things that I have in sport, um,
it was about the performance in sport.
I wasn't thinking of what would continue on from there,
and what influence and what impact it may have.
Yeah, it may be a wasted opportunity, um,
[stutters] if you don't use a profile when you see injustice,
and you can be the person that stands up
and be accountable to see that change.
[Thorpe] The reason I guess I hadn't come out was,
I was asked about it when I was a teenager,
when I was 16, by a journalist,
and then, for years, I was being accused of being gay,
or it was rumored that I was gay, or something like that.
So, it had always taken what was probably a negative tone.
And so, I didn't wanna come out.
Um, I wanted to get on with what I enjoyed doing and playing sport.
Like, it wasn't such a big deal for me at that time.
I decided that, once I told my family, that was the hardest thing for me to do,
then coming out to other people was fine.
Um, I decided I already had an interview
that I had to do with Michael Parkinson about something else,
and so, I just told him, "By the way, you should ask me if I'm gay,
"because I'm gonna tell you that I am."
You've always said that you're not gay.
Uh, you've said that your sexual experiences have been with women.
Is all of that true?
Well, that's true, but, um...
You know, I've thought about this for a long time.
I'll bet. Yeah.
I'm not straight.
You're not.
[Thorpe] I'm comfortable with people saying whatever they want.
Not that I think it's okay,
it's just I deal with it and move on with my life.
I may have struggled coming out, but I don't struggle being out.
I needed to get away 'cause I'm writing a book,
and wanted somewhere inspirational to do it,
to get on with it.
I finished most of it,
because I'm behind where I'd like to be at this stage.
The book itself is called, Had I Said Yes.
It's a sliding doors moment when I get asked by a journalist,
um, when I'm 16, if I'm gay,
and what would have happened if I said yes,
and how my life probably would have looked different.
And I know the research on what it was like during those times.
I wouldn't be able to compete in certain countries.
Things like that are pretty messed up.
Perhaps being out has made my mental health journey
a little bit easier.
I don't wanna change any part of my history,
but I do want people to understand the challenges,
because there will be challenges for others in the future.
[Hanson] No one gives you a book these days
on how to manage being a superstar as a teenage idol.
Towards the end of that, I think he took a lot of it into himself
and needed to talk to people about being Ian Thorpe
and being the Olympic legend that he became.
That's hard. That's tough.
Everyone who's made the top grade in swimming has gotta manage it.
It's not new.
I've seen some changes in Kyle Chalmers in this area.
"How do I handle being the Olympic champion,
"when everyone refers to me in the newspapers, on the TV,
[repeating] "Olympic champion?"
He's just a boy.
Hey.
-[Dr. John] How's it going? -Good, how are you?
Well, thank you.
So, you're still in lockdown?
Yeah, it was supposed to end this month
and now surgical masks are not sufficient.
Yeah. Yeah, right.
I think, where we left off, we were on about page 50.
[Kyle] I met Dr. Null when I was in Berlin in 2015.
He's a very knowledgeable guy who works as a counsellor
on the US Olympic team.
So, that's where we're starting from.
Getting on Zoom with him is one of the most important hours of my week.
"In order to make myself clear,
"I am forced to fall back on personal experience."
[Kyle] We read this book called Man's Search for Meaning,
and I think there's so many great passages in this book
that you can take a lot from.
[Dr. John] "I did not know whether my wife was alive,
"and I had no means of finding out.
"But at that moment, it ceased to matter.
"There was no need for me to know.
"Nothing could touch the strength of my love, my thoughts
"and the image of my beloved."
How does that relate to the world of elite sports?
Well, I guess it goes back to defining yourself by your relationships
and not defining yourself by your achievements.
[Dr. John] Indeed.
What do you think as you look over the next six months?
As the big event comes up,
what will be the forces trying to dehumanize you,
um, as the pressures mount?
Um, media, sponsorship...
I guess, all the pressure,
that everyone wants something, everyone wants a piece of me,
so it becomes stressful and hard the most.
[Dr. John] And without even people realizing it,
it can make you a piece of merchandise. Right?
-Exactly. Massively. -A commodity.
Yeah. For sure. A number.
You're given a number.
So, I'm number 761 to represent Australia.
And then it's like, how much money can number 761 generate
for our company and income?
So, you lose your identity a little bit.
It's the same with lots of things.
People don't necessarily care about you as a person
They see you as that athlete. If you're not doing well,
they're done with you and don't wanna find out what's wrong.
[Dr. John] How do you handle that?
Um...
Knowing who your real friends are and who you can have in your life
that you trust and are happy spending time with.
They're gonna be there, no matter what.
It's definitely still a challenge.
[Thorpe] I made a point that I would be in contact with Kyle,
knowing what he was going to be facing.
Even the level of expectation that would be around his performances,
and then, sometimes, just to be there as a mate,
uh, that he knows has gone through something similar.
[Dr. John] There will come a day, may it be far away,
but there will come a day when you will not be
the current Olympic champion in your field, right?
[chuckles] Let's hope it's a long way away.
-Indeed. Indeed. -Yeah.
But age will come to you too, right?
Yeah, for sure.
[indistinct chatter]
Other than that, she's not getting in the weight stuff.
As far as Cody's concerned,
he's gotta get through the heats in the 100 butterfly,
that's his Olympic event.
He's gotta go top 16, and then he's gotta improve again.
Probably gotta go past four athletes to go top eight.
Cody's gotta go 26.2, 26.8.
[Brett] Hop in the pool. Let's get splashed. Let's get ready.
We're gonna see what we're made of now.
[Brett] One of the things that we talked about in this process is,
we don't know his limit.
Everyone he's competing against
has experienced their limits to some degree.
And we're just finding out what his limits are.
Cody, you're 6.2, 6.8, so you're, like, 3/10ths off.
It's not much. Like we talked about, those little details.
You'll get it on the next one. Drink some water and then reset.
6.8! 6.8!
All right, Codes, here we go again, 20 seconds.
Oh, yes, 26.85. There we go.
That's a legit pace.
He's swimming at the pace he needs to be at
to be a top eight in Australia right now.
Five times in a row, so...
He's right there.
Good job.
[Cody] This has been a real journey, the last two weeks.
We've trained day in and day out.
Now I get a chance to see whether it's been worth it.
It would be nice to get to trials and be competitive.
It would make things fun and interesting.
Everything you've done has suggested that you are going to do it.
-Right. Yeah. -You know?
There's no question.
Now it's just a matter of going and doing it.
[Cody] I need to break 54 seconds.
-We'll make bad choices. -[chuckles]
That's cool.
-Oh, no, what's this? -Here we go.
-Ooh. -What number are we?
[man] You should never have given these to me.
[Brett] What's this?
[Cody] This is the Queensland Championships.
I'm probably 11 or 12 there.
[Cody's girlfriend] Look at your little arms.
[man] You were never the biggest bloke.
[Cody] Look at the guy next to me, he's at least 10 centimeters taller.
That guy looks like a monster compared to you.
-Huge man. -[Cody's girlfriend] Yeah.
[Cody] I was always small for my age.
I hadn't seen any footage of my races
from when I was young since I did them.
Um, Mum just had had 'em stored on, like, CDs or VHS,
or whatever the hell she was putting them on back then.
-[Cody] I'm hurting. -[man] That's a very efficient kick.
[stutters] I always had this big up-kick.
It's nice when I don't breathe.
When I breathe, I lift my head way too high.
I wish Brett didn't see this.
[Cody's girlfriend] You were way ahead.
[Cody] Yeah. This is like school day.
This is how most of my butterfly events went.
-[Cody's girlfriend] No way. -When I was growing up.
[Cody] I don't know how I did it, but I was tiny.
[whistling]
-[Brett] You didn't celebrate? -[Cody] No, I never claimed.
[Brett] Really?
I gotta practice celebrating.
-Yeah. -You do.
I was dissecting those races a little bit.
I do a lot of the same things now that I did then.
It's funny, I feel like, as we grow older,
we're then set back on this path to just reclaiming
the free, innocent person we were
before life happened to us.
And so, there, I was just swimming,
I wasn't thinking about it at all.
Now I swim and think so much.
And so, looking back at a race that I did when I was 12,
I learned so much from myself.
And now I'm doing these time trials and just thinking so much,
wishing that I was as free as I was back then.
[Thorpe] With Cody, it's seeing how much of the skill that he had
when he was a young swimmer,
virtually a child, just in his early teens.
Um, how much of that talent, um, will actually carry over
into what he can do as an adult?
And even being able to see his improvements
and some of them, how quickly he's making them,
um, is really encouraging.
But he needs some experience racing against the rest of the world now.
[crew member] Do you guys mind if we take a video of you doing a photo?
-Yeah. -Okay, sweet.
One, two, three. Smile.
[Bronte] There's a huge debate that goes on.
Should sports people have to be role models?
Whether or not you think they should, at the end of the day, you are.
-[girls] Thank you. -You're welcome.
It's like living in a goldfish bowl
and everyone's staring at the bowl and looking at everything.
They don't really see you as a person anymore.
That's just an athlete.
-Is it good? -Yeah.
Oh, yeah. We do look good.
[laughing]
Thank you.
-You're welcome. -Thank you.
-Bye. -Bye.
[Bronte] I would like athletes to be seen as people
who are trying really hard to do something.
Especially Olympic athletes who don't earn a lot of money.
They're doing it for the love of the sport,
and they train so hard and do so much work.
It's not so that you can turn around
and be excited or disappointed in them.
It's so that they can achieve something for them, their family, their country.
Hello! Peter.
[indistinct chatter]
Oh, my God, Butsy?
I thought you were in Bali.
Good to see you, Butsy.
Welcome home.
Oh, he's gone.
Hello, my love.
[indistinct]
-How you doing? -Beautiful light there.
It's, like, my last training day here and then I go to Brisbane.
For real?
It's weird, eh?
Okay, be careful.
Look at that. It's good.
It's good.
[Benfield] Gorgeous.
Did you go for a swim today?
Yeah, we went down about 10:30, 11:00.
We went for a swim...
How's the water?
Tim and Charlton were running down with their surfboards,
and so, I jumped in to swim
and I caught a couple of waves on my board as well.
Yeah, great.
You'll drive up in one go, up to Ballina?
Yeah, I go to Ballina tomorrow then cross the border on Monday.
Wow.
Nuts.
I gotta get back to it. I'm gonna go for my swim.
-Enjoy the swim. -Thanks, my love.
Be careful around the rocks.
Yeah. I will. I will be careful.
Thank you, my dear. Speak soon.
-Enjoy. I'll talk to you later. -Bye, love.
[Bronte] People ask it a lot, what have you sacrificed?
And I don't really like it as a question
because it sort of assumes that you can do everything in life.
I didn't sacrifice things. I made a choice for something else.
After you've made a choice to be a swimmer,
it takes away all the other choices.
You can make a choice to be a uni student and still go skiing,
or go travelling on your holidays.
Just all your choices are gone.
When you choose to be a swimmer it knocks them all out.
I missed out on things but I chose to miss out on them,
and I constantly kept on choosing to miss out on them.
I think it's a weird thing to be, like,
this is literally my childhood dream from when I was a little kid,
and I am doing it,
then to complain about the things I've given up along the way.
I'm aware that there's a bunch of young kids watching,
because when I was little, I watched the Olympics.
That's what got me into swimming.
Olympics is the biggest platform there is for my sport,
and when you're there, you've got a lot of power.
Isn't that a Spider-Man quote? "Great power, great responsibility."
[chuckles]
-Hello. -Good to see you.
Very nice to see you.
-Come on through. -Thank you.
-Nice to see you. -How are you?
-I'm well. How are you? -Good.
-Hello, love. -Elbows.
Is that how we do?
[Thorpe] So, I'm in Canberra,
and I'll be meeting with a number of politicians.
We work with both sides of government.
You know, our MPs and senators.
There's talk going around
obviously about the Religious Discrimination Bill.
Religious Discrimination Bill...
The Religious Freedom Bill proposed by the government
discriminates against people of faith.
It's not difficult for me to do,
to be at these kinds of meetings,
but I also do a lot of preparation for it as well,
so that I am comfortable around whatever statistic we may have
that we're putting out there and giving to people.
[Penny] But surely, fundamentally,
we would all agree, we wanna try and reduce the incidents
of self-harm amongst young people.
It's one in two of attempted suicide.
It makes the trans community or trans people,
the most vulnerable group that we have in our society.
There are people who are vulnerable
and who hear all sorts of negative messages,
so, what we can do to counter those
with messages of inclusion and support,
but also, "Hey, you know, I'm this person,
"and I'm on your side, so it's okay."
They are really important messages, so, thank you.
[Thorpe] Over a period of time, I built up a level of respect,
from, I think, the community and what I do,
and what I stand for as an individual,
but with that comes
a tremendous responsibility to also give back,
and I am happy to do that.
Um, five-time Olympic gold medalist, national icon
and dear friend of Equality Australia, Ian Thorpe.
When I do have the opportunity to speak about things that I can relate to
that I have experienced in my own life,
I, um... will feel that responsibility,
but I also want to deliver for when I felt voiceless in the past as well.
It was a few years ago now,
but for the first time, I actually experienced discrimination.
Um, I was in the back of an Uber
and I gave my boyfriend a peck.
It was only a peck, it wasn't any more than that.
And the driver made a point of turning around and saying to me,
"Ian Thorpe..." My name is not on my Uber account, by the way,
"Um, you should be ashamed of yourself."
So this is...
GIRL: He got a bad rating.
-Yeah, he got... -[all laughing]
-He got no rating. -[laughter]
He got a complaint, don't worry about that.
Um, the reason that I remember it particularly is,
it was, actually, that night
was the first time I told my partner at the time that I loved him.
Um, so, it ruined what should have been an incredible night for me.
That's the real world that still exists for a lot of people.
[people applauding]
[Thorpe] We had a swimming event cancelled,
so that we can bring the entire national team together.
So, not just the people who are on the Dolphin Team competing,
but the extended team.
-[Kyle] Morning. -[Steve] Good morning, sir.
[Kyle] How are you?
[indistinct chatter]
[Hanson] It's a chance to also train in squads together in different strokes,
but to also create the camaraderie
that you need with that group.
There's just some horrible green tree pythons there.
This is my Aussie green tree python female.
I'll be away for most of the year, so,
Steve'll take care of that this year.
It's five less mouths for my mum to feed when I'm away, which is good.
[pop song playing]
[Hanson] The National Event Camp can really set the stage
to bring the best of the best together.
Whether you are a rising 13 or 14 year old
that has strived to make the National Event Camp,
and you're on camp for the first time
with someone like Kyle Chalmers,
someone like Bronte and Kate Campbell.
You can rub shoulders with the best of the best.
It inspires you.
And, uh, to have Ian Thorpe walk in to an event camp,
it's the icing on the cake for them.
You just think, "Thorpie's in the house."
[indistinct chatter]
[Daniel] It's surreal to be in a room,
um, with so many incredible athletes, coaches, support staff.
[Rohan] To see this in the room, who would have thought,
six months ago, we'd be doing this?
But a lot of people did want a plan to have this happen and get you together,
and with the aim of getting ourselves
directed towards the Olympic Games.
So, when we look at the purpose of the next two days,
I like this phrase, "Pressure is a privilege."
We wanna create pressure.
We wanna create pressure on you so that you can execute.
So, we're enhancing the relay coaches. It's coach led.
We're bringing people together here, collaborating and engaging.
I can promise you that the next couple days
will bring pressure and uncertainty.
We want to improve our skills.
Measurable is competitive, so we'll measure a lot.
We wanna see competitiveness, and consistent performance under pressure.
We feel that the more you can do that, you can handle anything.
We've got opportunity to create history.
[pop song playing]