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Ian Thorpe: How I became Australia's most successful Olympian (E71)

The High Performance Podcast

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The Importance of Fun in Sports

I didn't know how to respond because for me, for looking at my family's history, my family played cricket. So the comparison itself, it almost felt as though it was too much. Even though it may have been accurate, I considered at the time that I was just a talented young athlete. And there was plenty of talented young athletes that existed before myself. But he still may hold some of the records for what happened in what would be the equivalent of county cricket. It's one of those things that goes unspoken. He would be embarrassed if I was to resort to speaking about it, which I'm doing right now.

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