Now 51, Susie O’Neill is craving something she says has proven elusive in her busy and successful life: contentment.
Susie O’Neill, 51, is a dual Olympic gold medallist who went on to a sterling radio career. But last week she shocked listeners with a surprise announcement.: Susie, good to chat. I want to get to your latest, extraordinary move, but let’s start with a quick blast from your swimming career that led you to be known nationwide as Madame Butterfly.
Madame Butterfly: Susie O’Neill in action in the pool. The stroke is so “violent and exhausting” it “scares others off”.: No, it is violent and exhausting. But it’s for that very reason it scares off so many others, which is good! And I just had the capacity to push myself to the absolute limits in training, competing with myself, always chasing the lower times. In my mind, the more I could kill myself at training, morning after morning after morning, the faster I was going to get.
O’Neill decided to quit swimming after the 2000 Olympics: “Once I started wanting to take short-cuts and skip training sessions, I knew it was time.”: I just didn’t want to put the work in any more. Once I started wanting to take short-cuts and skip training sessions, I knew it was time. Plus, I was 27, my friends were going out and doing different things, while I felt like I was living the same life I’d lived since I was nine years old. So I stopped swimming and looked to chase something else.
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