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The agony, relief, belief, satisfaction, and reward told on the faces of Australian marathon swimmers Nic Sloman<\/b> and Kyle Lee<\/b> after their 10km battle royal to book their places for this year\u2019s Paris Olympics in Doha overnight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sloman (1hr:48:29.60) fifth and Lee (1hr:48:31.20) ninth fought all the way to finish to lock in their Olympic qualification places \u2013 and seal a full complement for the Australian open water team \u2013 joining Chelsea Gubecka<\/b> (Fukuoka silver 2023 Worlds) and Moesha Johnson<\/b>\u2019s fourth place finish in Doha the day before.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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WE DID IT MATE: Nic Sloman and Kyle Lee taking it all in after qualifying for Paris. Photo Courtesy Wade Brennan (Wade’s Photos).<\/p><\/div>\n

Australia has never fielded two swimmers in an Olympic marathon since it made its debut in Beijing in 2008 \u2013 capitalising on the change in the Olympic criteria with Swimming Australia amending its selection criteria respectively so that the athlete that achieves the Federation spot is also awarded representative rights – finishing in the top 13.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For Noosa\u2019s 26-year-old Sloman, the five-time Australian 10km champion, there have been four years of blood, sweat and tears after missing the team for Tokyo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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WA\u2019s Lee, at 21 from the North Shore club has emerged as the rising star of open water swimming as Australia as he embarks on an exciting international career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sloman\u2019s swim was a personal triumph and a triumph for his partnership with long-time coach John \u201cJR\u201d Rodgers who has planned, plotted and persevered, believing that Nic would reach his holy grail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The coach who steered Kareena Lee<\/b> to Australia\u2019s first ever Olympic medal \u2013 bronze in Tokyo in 2021 \u2013 with Lee now coaching the next gen alongside Rodgers in the Noosa program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Eighty-five-year-old Rodgers wasn\u2019t on the pontoon at Port Doha after spending three weeks in a Sunshine Coast Hospital recently, fighting an infection, released a week before yesterday\u2019s swim \u2013 and who sat glued to the broadcast overage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But for \u201cJR\u201d he was there in spirit and with one of his lifelong lieutenants, two-time Olympian and experienced coach Graeme Brewer,<\/strong> on the Australian team staff \u2013 he knew the team was in safe hands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A rare Olympic coaching feat for master coach Rodgers who placed Brewer, Ron McKeon<\/b> (1980\/1984) and Max Metzker<\/b> (1976\/1980) onto those Olympic teams and now Sloman onn the 2024 team some 40 years later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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BAND OF BROTHERS: Olympics connected with 1980 and 1984 Olympian Graeme Brewer on hand to welcome Nic Sloman and Kyle Lee to the Olympians club. Photo Courtesy Delly Carr (Swimming Australia)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cJR\u201d swimming every stroke of the hustle and bustle of the 10km war on water with 60 swimmers battling for those \u00a0top 13 spots and a ticket to Paris.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sloman and Lee, under dedicated and astute Perth\u2019s North Shore, WA coach Ian Mills<\/b>, knew they had to be in the mix from the opening lap of the helter-skelter six lap course, with everything in the line.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The race really tightened up on the last lap of the race where Sloman made his move and Lee stuck to him like a leech with five different lines formed as multiple swimmers thought they had a chance to win as they approached the final turning buoy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It was early leader Hungarian Kristof Rasovszky<\/b> (1hr:48:21.20) who produced a powerful burst inside the last 400m to kick clear of the chase group to take the title ahead of France’s Marc-Antoine Oliver<\/b> (1:48:23.6) and\u00a0Britain’s Hector Pardow<\/b> (1:48:29.2)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Then came the wash\u2026.Sloman and Lee putting their heads down with a line of six swimmers pounded their way to the touch pad in a flurry of arms and legs clambering over each other in desperate lunges to the finish.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI know what it\u2019s like to miss out after Tokyo so there was no way I was going to let this chance pass,\u201d said an exhausted Sloman.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt hurt, particularly when the pace picked up in that final lap, but I knew I had to stay in touch with leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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GOTTA HAND IT TO YOU KYLE: Nic Sloman congratulates Kyle Lee..next stop Paris. Photos Courtesy Delly Carr (Swimming Australia)<\/p><\/div>\n

Lee, showing experience and a cool head beyond his 21 years, executing his race plan to perfection, holding his position in the lead group by owning the space in front of him to work his way through the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just can\u2019t believe it, I stuck to our plan and I guess it worked,\u201d an understated Lee said as he came to terms with his achievement of Olympic proportions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Team Leader and Swimming Australia’s High Performance Director Greg Shaw<\/strong> knows that to secure all four Olympic positions, for the first time, highlighted Australia\u2019s growing impact on international waters, saying: \u201cNic and Kyle today showed how open water is a race of opportunities and the power of decision making, this is a really tight group and shared intelligence of this group just keeps growing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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PHOTOS COURTESY Wade Brennan (Wade’s Photos).<\/strong><\/p>\n

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MOMENT TO SAVOUR: Nic Sloman realising the Olympic journey is a tough road but all worthwhile. Photo Courtesy Wade Brennan (Wade’s Photos)<\/p>\n

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PHOTOS COURTESY Delly Carr (Swimming Australia)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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RISING STAR: WA’s Kyle Lee, emerges from Doha as one of the rising stars of open water swimming. Photo Courtesy Delly Carr (Swimming Australia)<\/p>\n

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