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Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers,<\/strong> dreading the thought of not being able to swim for six months, has returned home from a road trip back to his roots on the remote South Australian coast to a surprise that will put his Olympic plans back on track \u2013 and literally in his own backyard.<\/p>\n

Chalmers had left his beachside home in Glenelg, on the outskirts of Adelaide , packing up his troubles in an old kit bag for an eight hour drive \u00a0\u2013 to contemplate life and a 12 month Tokyo Olympic hiatus.<\/p>\n

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LOCKED AND LOADED: Kyle Chalmers means business at the NSW State Championships. Photo Courtesy: Anthony Burns APP (Swimming NSW).<\/p><\/div>\n

Two weeks ago the Rio 100m freestyle champion arrived into Streaky Bay, a sleepy South Australian fishing village \u2013 situated on the West Coast of South Australia\u2019s Eyre Peninsula near the picturesque town of Ceduna.<\/p>\n

He was ready to roll up his sleeves \u00a0to work in his cousin\u2019s marine repair shop while it was still open.<\/p>\n

Sleeping in his swag (bedroll) in the family backyard \u2013 roughing it as Australian \u201cswagmen\u201d have done for decades when they go bush.<\/p>\n

But at least Streaky Bay is a coastal town with a swimming enclosure located in the ocean at the end of its iconic 300m long Jetty.<\/p>\n

It is sectioned off with a shark-proof swimming enclosure (built following shark sightings and a 9ft (2.74m) shark caught off the jetty in 1936).<\/p>\n

Chalmers, who packed his wetsuit, spear gun and fins actually forgot his goggles and had to get his Mum to post them down to him so he could at least jump into the shark protected enclosure and roll his arms over.<\/p>\n

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SHOULDER TO LEAN ON: Kyle Chalmers (centre) at the NSW Championships Photo Courtesy: Anthony Burns APP (Swimming NSW).<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s that love and passion of the water that has caused Chalmers no end of concerns after his and 10,000 athletes around the world had their 2020 Olympic dreams put on hold for 12 months.<\/p>\n

But the 21-year-old with an old head on those very broad young shoulders, is also conscious of doing whatever he can to ensure he gets the message out to \u201ckeep your distance\u201d and ensuring survival in a world ravaged by COVID-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so important to spread the word throughout the community and even scaring people into doing the right thing so we can beat this thing,\u201d said Chalmers, who with all swimming pools shutdown,\u00a0will now have a \u201cflume pool\u201d installed on the side of his home in a shipping container to re-focus his Tokyo sights in a big way – allowing him to swim.<\/p>\n

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GLENELG BOUND: A pool similar to one that will be inserted into Kyle Chalmers home in Glenelg. Photo Courtesy Shipping Container Pools.<\/p><\/div>\n

A Queensland-based container pools company will provide the Rio sprint king with a customised 6.5m x 2.5m pool, complete with a powerful impeller motor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been very fortunate through my coach Peter Bishop<\/strong> who really drove it and my management group who contacted Shipping Container Pools, who will provide me with a pool right up until the Olympics,\u201d said Chalmers, who is priming himself to become the first Australian to win back-to-back 100m freestyle crowns.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has a powerful jet to swim against and I get to custom design it to my preferences.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very excited about it and I\u2019ll get it in a month; it\u2019s a huge stress off my mind and that really was my biggest concern not being able to swim for six months but now I\u2019ve got the possibility to swim in this pool I\u2019m very excited about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cLiving where I live in Glenelg we don\u2019t have huge backyards – In fact in my place I actually don\u2019t have a backyard at all.<\/p>\n

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BACKYARD BLITZ: A similar pool for Kyle Chalmers. Photo Courtesy: Shipping Container Pools<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cSo we had to take out part of my garden and put a cement slab down to be able to house it for the time being down the side of my house.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving the luxury of putting this pool in will make this time that much easier.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me I know its definitely worth doing, swimming to me is what I love doing and the fear of not swimming for six months and being able to do what I love was becoming quite a daunting challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so grateful that the company has jumped on board and are willing to support me through it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve called me every day and they are just as excited as I am and they are going to put my signature on the bottom on the pool which is pretty cool and I\u2019ll add a few of my own touches to it so it will really feel like my own.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will make the time go that much quicker and its one less thing I don\u2019t have to worry about.\u201d<\/p>\n

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FLYING START: Kyle Chalmers (in the closest black cap) at the 2020 NSW State Championships and in the best “in season” form of his life. Photo Courtesy: Anthony Burns APP(Swimming NSW)<\/p><\/div>\n

Kyle Chalmers had been \u201con fire<\/a>\u201d and on the eve of lock-down life as we now know it \u00a0and just two weeks before the Games were postponed he had posted the fastest times he\u2019d ever swum in season saying \u201cdefinitely the stuff I was doing in training was the best I\u2019ve ever done.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was in the best shape of my life, skinfold wise, strength wise and injury free (after an annoying back problem) so for some it was hard knowing how much hard work I had put in.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the sacrifices I had made especially over these last few months to get to that point and then not being able to see where the season takes me is a challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I know that next year I\u2019ll be a year older, a year closer to my prime and I know I can get back into that shape to defend my title in swimming\u2019s blue ribband event and attempt to become the first Australian to win back-to-back gold in the 100m freestyle.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know the stuff I can push myself to do in training now and for me it\u2019s just about doing things outside the pool for the next six months that are going to make me better in the pool.”<\/p>\n

Until Chalmers<\/a> custom-made container pool arrives he\u2019s got a friend with a 14 metre backyard pool to feed his swimming habit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2018ll jump in there and have a crack maybe two to three times a week for a while to build back up,\u201d said Kyle Chalmers, who has also arrived home to put a routine together.<\/p>\n

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MADE IN MARION: Peter Bishop’s Marion HP Squad Photo Courtesy Kyle Chalmers Instagram<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cOur squad at Marion, 10 of us, are doing gym over Zoom three times a week and I actually just got off a Zoom Yoga session.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd essentially I\u2019ve got something every day that gives me routine, I need to have that routine and structure; I\u2019m about to go down and write down my weekly plan that I can stick to so I\u2019m not just sitting around bored.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I can keep my mind active and my body active I\u2019ll be able to get through this very comfortably.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m coming up with quite a structured routine\u2026that\u2019s going to take up most days so I do have things to distract me and I know that when I am doing exercise it is very good for the mind so I\u2019ll be doing as much exercise as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Friday morning for his 10-strong squad is hiking day in groups of two; leaving three minutes apart to ensure they adhere to the strict social distancing.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoing those types of things makes the time go a bit easier\u2026I love my squad and I love my team and I guess you spend so much time with them when you are in the normal routine so when that gets taken away from you it does get quite hard,\u201d said Chalmers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels like you are not allowed to be with your family almost, so being able to catch up with them for an hour or two each day over Zoom fills that void for the time being.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll these things are challenges; you have to be adaptable and the people that are most adaptable are going to come out of this stronger and learn plenty of things about themselves and be stronger humans.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m making sure I\u2019m doing everything I can to be as adaptable as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chalmers admits it has taken him a while to get to this point in his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has certainly been lots of challenges throughout the four-year block and there were times I didn\u2019t think I would be able to get back to this point,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I know now I\u2019ve done all the right things to get to where I am now and that\u2019s why I think I can cope with the (postponement) news and realise I\u2019ve got so many other things in my life that I\u2019m grateful for.<\/p>\n

\u201cMentally I\u2019m in a really good spot and I\u2019m making sure I stay in that spot by tapping into the right people to help me continue on.”<\/p>\n

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BALL AND ALL: Couch time a rarity for exercise hungry Kyle Chalmers but his footy is never far away. Photo Courtesy: Kyle Chalmers Instagram.<\/p><\/div>\n

Australian Football has always been a constant in Chalmers’ life and he rarely goes anywhere without a Sherrin football under one arm and his swimming costumes in the other.<\/p>\n

His best mate, Sam Jacobs<\/strong>, is a ruckmen in the Australian Football League (AFL) who lives 200m down the road, and will line up with 2019 beaten grand finalists Greater Western Sydney Giants \u2013 in a season now on hold due to the Coronavirus.<\/p>\n

\u201cSam has been away too in his home town Ardrossan, in the country and as soon as he\u2019s back in town we\u2019ll be going for a kick most afternoons and a bit of a jog around,\u201d said Chalmers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important to find people in the same position as you; train together and get through it together so I\u2019ll definitely be tapping into him on a daily basis.\u201d<\/p>\n

You get the feeling that a contented Kyle Chalmers, now contained in his own backyard, will come out of this lockdown, stronger and more hungrier than ever – his thirst for water finally quenched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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