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By Mat Luebbers, About.com Guide to Swimming since 1999

How A Champion Swimmer Came Back From Nowhere - Mind Training Tips for Swimmers

Tuesday May 13, 2008
This is a story designed to inspire those who have been doing it tough, and are searching for some inspiration to keep them going, because everyone needs this at some time in their life. Twenty-four year old Australian Bill Kirby is not a household name around the world and yet he is a miraculous human being. His main goal in life was to make an Olympic team, but in 1996, in his preparations for the Olympic swimming trials, he was battling with health problems which threatened to de-rail his dreams.

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