Cody Simpson

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And to do that with Mollie by my side and Arnie (Ariarne Titmus) on the other side and Dean (Boxall) and Maxine watching us, as you saw, I was just so emotional.” So to come after a year and do that time, I was over the moon. And you know, it is just going to keep going up from here. “I know exactly how he feels and he knows how I feel. But each to their own and we’re just as proud of each other as we can be.” And I was so surprised to see that ‘52’. I had been working really, really hard for that.

After having his swimming dream 'sidetracked' by fame in America, the Gold Coast prodigy has now qualified for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

I think every swimmer, it’s important for them to have something outside of the pool to balance your life out.” The honour stunned Simpson, who is also a likely discretionary pick for the world titles in June. “It means everything to me,” he said. “My mum swam for Australia and I told her as a little boy that I wanted to swim for Australia as well,” Simpson said. Music remains a passion Simpson, who now dates Australian swim star Emma McKeon. Last month he released another album, self-titled. Simpson returned to his pet stroke, butterfly, thinking by 2024 he may have a chance of earning a berth on an Australian team. He was a shooting star in the pop world.

Pop star turned swimmer impressed at the Australian swimming trials.

To potentially make a team already is just a bonus on the way to Paris." I was hoping to go a little quicker tonight but to scrape under is a real dream. I've just been busting my arse all year so it's amazing to see results like this pay off.

Cody Simpson always had a dream, but it wasn't to be a global pop star. It was to swim for Australia.

"Ian Thorpe is always telling me if you stop playing music, I will stop mentoring you in the sport, you need to have something to go to in life," he said. "I think every swimmer, it's important for them to have something outside of the pool to balance your life out." "But I think about it every morning, every night, and I work towards it every day so I was bound to hopefully reap some rewards at some point." "My mum swam for Australia and I told her as a little boy that I wanted to swim for Australia as well," Simpson said. "When I decided to come back (to the pool), she was one of the only people to say 'are you sure you want to do that, do you understand the work it entails?'." So in 2019, he returned to the pool in chase of his dream.

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I was hoping to go a little quicker tonight but to scrape under is a real dream. To potentially make a team already is just a bonus on the way to (the) Paris (Olympics).” I didn’t think I’d be remotely competitive, racing this year at the earliest. “You’ve got to finish in the top two to get the individual spot, and unfortunately I — well, not unfortunately, it’s my dream. “You can’t make me out to be the villain. There is no attention or hype around him which is for me what I struggle the most with.