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Follow Billboard. All rights reserved. Pop singer Cody Simpson finished last in the meter butterfly final at the Australian Olympic swimming trials on Thursday June 17 , but he was trying to focus on the bigger picture. He had two personal best swims at the Adelaide trials, in the butterfly and the freestyle. Emily Seebohm and Cate Campbell joined Leisel Jones as the only Australian swimmers to make four Olympics, with the team also including three athletes named to their third Olympics, nine to their second and 21 to their first team.

In an Instagram post Simpson lauded his amazing experience at his first Olympic trials and included a vow that he will be back for the next games, writing, "To make a final was our goal this year and with less than a year of training we did just that.

See you in 3 years. In , Simpson was doing a corporate performance in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He saw some of the same athletes that he swam with as a teen competing in the Rio Olympics. And his interest in swimming grew even more. He teamed up with coach Brett Hawkes and settled in for four years of training and a high-protein diet to fuel his body.

That time was well under the Six months later, at the Australian Olympic trials, he shaved close to two seconds off of his qualifying time. Unfortunately, he still missed the chance at the Tokyo Olympic podiums by 1. So we we have a couple of seconds to drop and then to be on the Olympic team, you have to be, you know, 51 seconds probably. If you understand swimming, it's not out of the realm of possibility to drop three seconds in a season.

You know, we need to get fast improvements, but it at least puts you in the conversation, right? Simpson says he's in this for the long run and his ambitions of being a high-achiever in two arenas are real, as he explains to his coach in their hour-long talk on YouTube. And I think that when the Beijing Olympics were out there and that was like my first year, I was at my first national championships and stuff like that.

Phelps old rival, five-time Olympic gold medallist Ian 'Thorpedo' Thorpe, has also passed on words of wisdom. Simpson grew up "idolising him immensely too" and thanked Thorpe for his advice on "everything from just personal to swimming in terms of how he handled the public aspect of sport so well and nobly". The reigning Olympic m fly champion is Joseph Schooling , the only man to beat Phelps in Rio and the first Singaporean athlete to win Olympic gold. Schooling's winning time in Rio was a new Games record of The world record is Simpson knows what he has to aim at, but insists he's putting no pressure on himself and enjoying the novelty of training every day:.

The Australian trials are in Adelaide from June, but this is about much more than just qualifying for the Olympics for him.