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Business Daily meets: Swimming's power couple

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4796 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

We hear from 4-time Olympic gold medallist Libby Trickett and her entrepreneurial husband Liam.

Libby Trickett (Lenton) competed for Australia at the highest level, winning gold in the pool in Beijing and London.

At the height of her swimming career she married fellow swimmer Luke Trickett, who had left the sport and was using the skills he'd learnt as an athlete to enter the business world.

We hear how the Global Financial Crisis inspired Luke’s entrepreneurial spirit. And through it all, how teamwork has been their ultimate key to success in transitioning to new careers after retiring from competitive sports.

Presenter: Ed Butler Producer: Amber Mehmood Editor: Lis Mahy

(Photo: Libby and Luke Trickett. Credit: Getty Images)

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Ed Butler. Welcome to Business Daily on the BBC World Service. Now, all this week on the show,

0:07.0

we've been building up to this month's launch of the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games,

0:11.8

hearing tales from those who've competed in the past. For many, it's the culmination, of course,

0:18.0

of years of intensive training and sacrifice. But what's life like

0:21.6

when you have to rebuild after Olympic success? Today, we're hearing from an Australian

0:27.7

Olympic power couple. One, a former champion and world record holder in the pool, the other

0:33.7

a swimmer turned stockbroker. How success for them became a team endeavour.

0:39.6

He is the person who taught me what hard work is.

0:44.0

He is almost exclusively the reason that I was able to achieve what I did in swimming.

0:49.1

It was quite a turn of events for me being essentially that the swimmer of the meat to then having

0:56.4

your then girlfriend become literally front page news overnight.

1:01.8

That's Libby and Luke Tricket, reflecting on life in and out of the pool and how to find

1:08.0

your way after you've left elite sport.

1:10.7

Even if you're the best athlete in the world, try different things,

1:15.0

really start to formulate those ideas and plans for life after sport.

1:20.1

And don't discount or diminish what you have learned being an athlete.

1:31.8

If you can apply those skills, the same mentality that you learnt, then the skies are the limit for you. The Business of Life after Sport, that's here

1:39.2

on Business Daily on the BBC World Service.

1:45.6

Libby Tricket.

1:50.9

Then Libby Lenton was born in Australia back in the mid-1980s.

1:54.6

The youngest of four, she entered the pool at an early age.

1:58.1

In Australia, that part is quite warm.

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