TRACK STAR
Apr 19, 2020
3 minutes
You’re one of those very rare athletes who started out in one discipline and successfully switched to another. What made you go from sprinting 400m to 800m?
There were too many comparisons between me and Cathy Freeman, [people were] trying to make me the next big thing. I felt no-one was listening to me and what I wanted to do. And it got to the point where I was spinning out of control – drinking every weekend. I thought, “I’m just partying with my friends,” but I wasn’t actually doing the job on the track. So I
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