Mack Horton: Olympic Swimming Champion and enemy of drug cheats
The Briefing27 Heinä 2020

Mack Horton: Olympic Swimming Champion and enemy of drug cheats

The Tokyo Olympics were scheduled to open last week before the pandemic pushed them back to next year. Australian Olympic Swimming champion Mack Horton would’ve been racing this week, defending his 400m Gold medal from Rio. It would also have been the first Olympics without a Sun Yang drug cloud hanging over it after the Chinese swimmer was banned for eight years after tampering with a drug test. He joins us on today's show as our very special guest.

In today's news headlines:

  • Three-week-old baby infected with coronavirus in Melbourne NICU cluster
  • Top lawmakers refuse to #RaiseTheAge
  • Black Lives Matter protesters say they’ll cancel today’s rally on one condition
  • The ACCC’s world-first case against Google

In today's Briefing we ask Mack Horton: How time out of the water was harder than the postponement of the Olympics for him? What was it like not having a pool to train in during lockdown? What's the new sport he’s fallen in love with? What is the physical and psychological impacts of not training? How different the Olympics might look in 2021 in a pandemic world? What was his podium protest really about at the Rio Games?

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