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Michael Klim: ‘As A Swimmer I Never Got Stressed; It’s Everyday That Can Be Stressful’
- Updated: October 17, 2016
Michael Klim, Olympic and World titles and medals stacked in his treasury, visited a sports psychologist to help him through the hard transition from Australia team swimmer to life beyond elite racing after retirement in 2007.
Speaking to Kate Waterhouse in The Sun Herald, the 39-year-old revealed that he found the transition harder than Olympic training. His tale is a fairly common among leading swimmers who often struggle to make a smooth affair of the move from the organised regime that is the life of a world-class athlete to a post-race-retirement world of many choices but little guidance.
Klim, a father of three, sums it up very well when he says:
“When I was swimming I never got stressed. [At retirement] You want to …
