“Knew how to deal with it” – Cody Simpson set for 2022 Commonwealth Games after return to ‘first love’ swimming from music career
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Popular Australian singer Cody Simpson experienced something completely when he stood behind the starting blocks at his first Olympic swimming trials last year. Fast forward to today, Simpson is preparing to compete in his first international event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, with his 50-meter butterfly heats scheduled for Friday.
The Gold Coast native Simpson, who has been used to regularly performing in front of thousands of people and making live TV appearances, may get transported back with a big crowd watching on and fans chanting his name.
“I’ve had the experience of having to get up and do things in front of lots and lots of people that I cared about the outcome,” says Simpson, as quoted by CNN Sport. “I knew how to deal with it more than let it ruin me at that moment, I suppose.”
“I just love the grind”
Simpson, 25, seems to have completely turned his focus towards competitive swimming in the past three years ever since he moved back to the sport. Popular for his lead role of Dmitry in the Broadway musical Anastasia, Simpson has made steady progress as he hadn’t expected to make the finals of the Olympic trials for the Tokyo 2020. He currently eyes a spot on the Australian team for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
“I didn’t ease into it really, we weren’t cautious about trying to build up slowly,” Simpson told. “My coach had me doing things that I definitely wasn’t ready to do at the times I was doing them, but I just loved that grind.
“It put me on a trajectory of rapid improvement because I just had to learn how to deal with it — whether that was throwing up at least twice a week for the first six months, just adapting to what I was trying to put my body through.”
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