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Podcast: Inside with Brett Hawke
Episode: #044 Ian Thorpe
Description: Brett speaks with swimming prodigy, Ian Thorpe!
What makes a champion?
What is it like being a World Champion at 15 years old?
The level of expectation and pressure leading into the Sydney Olympics. Breaking his ankle 12 months out.
Being accused of doping by Germany's Head Coach and then destroying the 200 Free World Record by over a second. This took place at the FINA World Cup Berlin stop in 2000.
Losing the 200 Free to Pieter van den Hoogenband in Sydney.
The theory behind Doug Frost's training program. "Flog the athlete."
3000 for time. 30:46 or 30:16...