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Former Olympic champion Kieren Perkins has forged a successful career as a banking executive.

Olympic legend Perkins says disruption ‘part of the scenery’ at Games

Kieren Perkins, now president of Swimming Australia, has been encouraged by the first Tokyo COVID playbook and said adversity was part of every Olympic Games.

  • Phil Lutton

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Gold medal winner Grant Hackett (right) and Kieren Perkins at the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

'Scared of my own country': Hackett's fear before Olympic clash with Perkins

Hackett said their relationship at the time was 'frosty', not because of any hostility between them but because Perkins had such a laser-like focus on swimming.

  • Phil Lutton

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