Golden Moments: Michael Klim
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Every show in the lead-up to the Games in Paris, Christian is taking you back to some of the most iconic Aussie gold-medal winning moments and talking to the athletes themselves about what it was all like. It's guaranteed to give you goosebumps and get you pumped for the Games.
Today the champion Michael Klim relives the Australian team's relay win at the opening night of the Sydney games.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | This week we've been hearing these amazing stories from Australian gold medal winners, taking us back to their golden moments. Today is an incredible one and a story with it. |
| 0:16.0 | It's actually got when you hear this five or six different, even stories within it. We're going back to Michael Klim. |
| 0:23.7 | Michael Reflect on the most memorable golden moments in Australian sporting history |
| 0:27.7 | when he was part of the gold winning team in the men's 4 by 100 metres freestyle relay at the 2000 Sydney Games. |
| 0:36.3 | We heard this yesterday after the show, getting it ready to play you guys. |
| 0:39.8 | I went and watched it yesterday afternoon. |
| 0:42.2 | And it gave me goosebumps. |
| 0:43.5 | You know when you're watching something, you get so involved in the emotional bit? |
| 0:46.7 | I felt like it was happening life. |
| 0:48.8 | So funny. |
| 0:49.5 | And I don't know why. |
| 0:50.2 | What was going on? |
| 0:51.2 | Thorpe is behind towards the end of the race. |
| 0:53.1 | I don't think he will make it. I don't think he will make it. |
| 0:54.8 | I don't think he'll make it. |
| 0:56.4 | And Thorpe was just 17. |
| 0:59.8 | At the time, he was a boy. |
| 1:01.5 | It's incredible what they happened. |
| 1:03.2 | Anyway, let Michael take you there now. |
| 1:05.0 | Have a listen to this. |
| 1:06.4 | Christian O'Connell's Golden Moments, |
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