Swimming club south of Brisbane has produced multiple Australian swimmers
Mollie O’Callaghan has won the 200 metres freestyle in Paris -- in Olympic record time -- edging her rival and compatriot Ariarne Titmus who finished second in a sensational race. Mollie O’Callaghan’s path to gold started in the Greenbank Gators swimming club, south of Brisbane. The club has already produced three Olympians. Natalie Willcocks, from the club, says it's a special moment for the younger generation.
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00:00The whole swimming community, the swimmers out here, the school and the whole community
00:06out here is so behind both of these girls.
00:10It's just amazing to think we've actually produced three Olympians to come out of that
00:15school there and two come out of the pool, which is amazing.
00:18So everyone's absolutely behind them out here and cheering them on.
00:22I was up at 5.30 this morning for the race and I was up the other morning watching the
00:26relay and stuff.
00:27So yeah, it's pretty special.
00:28A lot of the kids that are still at school now, they didn't realise that Molly and Shana
00:34especially came out of that pool sort of thing.
00:37As a club, we celebrate it because we use that pool that they both swam in.
00:43So for the younger generation that are coming through, they've all sort of gone, oh wow,
00:48there's three Olympians coming out of Greenbank State School and two out of that pool.
00:52There's magic in our water up here, that's for sure.