A knock on the bathroom door saved Leisel Jones' life when the pressures of elite swimming had become too much. She's now detailed how a 'toxic culture' and generational shift changed her view on the sport.
It was her crowning moment but soon after that the dynamic within the Australian swim team began to change, Jones says.Leisel Jones at the FINA World Championships in 2011.
In 2011 she had planned to end it, and was sitting on the floor of a hotel bathroom in Spain with a box of sleeping tablets. It was only a knock on the door from her coach that stopped her going through with the attempt. "I think too, I snapped out of a very selfish view of the world that it was all about me and everyone cared about what I was doing and everyone cared that I was winning."
And while she was still only in her mid-20s, Jones says she struggled to form the same connection with the younger generation of athletes who were now her teammates.
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