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Tasmanian Max Giuliani won a thrilling men’s 200m freestyle final on Tuesday night to book a ticket to his first Olympics and then realised he needed to text his boss to get some time off work.
The 20-year-old, who had all but given up swimming as a teenager before one last push to become an Olympian, is working two or three shifts a week in the fishing section at an Anaconda store at Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast.
Max Giuliani took out the men’s 200m freestyle title at the Australian Olympic and Paralympic trials in Brisbane on Tuesday night.Credit: Getty
“I’m going to message the boss after this. I’ll be away for about 10 weeks,” said Giuliani with a big grin after edging out Tommy Neill by 0.19 seconds in the final race on night two of the Australian Olympic and Paralympic trials in Brisbane.
“I pulled back a bit last week [on shifts at work]. I just go in there and switch off and hang with the boys and just muck around and not think about swimming.”
Read the full story, and the full report from night two, here.
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