Q&A with Eamon Sullivan

By Jack Baker
Updated February 20 2013 - 9:42am, first published February 18 2013 - 12:00am
Corowa youngsters get up close and personal with the London and Beijing Olympian.  Pictures: MATTHEW SMITHWICK
Corowa youngsters get up close and personal with the London and Beijing Olympian. Pictures: MATTHEW SMITHWICK
Sullivan’s ­floating pontoon in which he has to ‘live’ at the Corowa pool for 2000 minutes.
Sullivan’s ­floating pontoon in which he has to ‘live’ at the Corowa pool for 2000 minutes.
Jayden Forge and Daniel Ryland, both 4, get to know Olympic silver and bronze medallist Eamon Sullivan at the Corowa pool yesterday.
Jayden Forge and Daniel Ryland, both 4, get to know Olympic silver and bronze medallist Eamon Sullivan at the Corowa pool yesterday.
Eamon Sullivan in Corowa as part of the Swim Kids Operation 10,000
Eamon Sullivan in Corowa as part of the Swim Kids Operation 10,000

Australian Olympian Eamon Sullivan was in Corowa yesterday to help launch a national campaign to highlight and prevent children drowning. To launch Swim Kids Operation 10,000, Sullivan is spending 2000 minutes (33 hours) “living” at the Corowa pool. The push to teach 10,000 Aussie kids to swim became a passion after a near-drowning experience in his pool when he was a young child. In between making a splash and doing a few laps, the Perth superfish took time out from his ambassadorial role to speak with Jack Baker about Rio 2016, the issue of drugs in sport and the pressures of competing on the world’s biggest stage.

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