The former chart-topper has completed his audacious comeback after swimming his way onto the Dolphins roster for the World Championships and Commonwealth ...
He has a Twitter following of 6.7m and another 4.4m on Instagram, as well as starring in an Amazon documentary charting his return to the sport. What was always a plan to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris has now seen him surge onto the team two years ahead of schedule. Simpson was a talented junior swimmer and his early coaches had little doubt he was good enough to compete at the very highest level. It took another four years for him to commit to the cause before he dipped his toe back into racing under the guidance of former Australian sprinter Brett Hawke. But to come in on the qualifying time and get on the podium at the nationals, it’s unreal. My mum [Angie] swam for Australia. I always wanted to swim for Australia and was side-tracked for the better part of 10 years.
Pop star Cody Simpson is set to compete at June's world swimming championships after placing third in the 100m butterfly at the Australian Championships.
“So much progress from last year, just been busting my ass all year, so it’s amazing to see results like this pay off.” “I didn’t even think I’d be remotely competitive, even racing, until this year at the earliest, so to potentially make the team already is just a bonus on the way to Paris,” Simpson said on Amazon Prime, referring to his ultimate goal at the start of his comeback of making the 2024 Olympic team. So Simpson, a 25-year-old who hit the world championships qualifying time to the hundredth in the final (and went faster in prelims), appears headed to worlds in Budapest. Nations can send two swimmers per individual event who hit the qualifying time.
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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.
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To potentially make a team already is just a bonus on the way to (the) Paris (Olympics)." I was hoping to go a little quicker tonight but to scrape under is a real dream. "I think the hard thing is my training buddy Matt Temple is the Australian record holder who won his back to back title last night. There is no attention or hype around him which is for me what I struggle the most with. "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.
Pop star Cody Simpson proved that his return to swimming is no joke as he placed third in the 100 butterfly at Australia's Trials.
How many people that had already made it to fame and fortune would put all that on the backburner to dedicate himself or herself to the arduous and against-all-odds task of transforming into an elite swimmer? Almost all of Simpson’s worldwide following got to know him for his talents on stage and in the recording studio, not in a 50-meter pool, but Simpson will head to Budapest with 4.4 million followers on Instagram, compared to 3.4 million for 23-time Olympic gold medalist MichaelPhelps. His 51.79 in the 100 fly was a personal best by more than a second, and a mark that quick would already put him right on the edge of qualifying for the semifinals at the World Championships. But now that he has booked a spot on the international level, his appearance might not be a simple cameo. Three swimmers can represent a country at the Commonwealth Games, so Simpson will be selected for that team as well. He spoke of his goal to swim at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, and in a stunning turn of events, that was no longer a pipe dream.