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Your dad gets out today.

Tempo! Tempo!

Tempo!

No! Catch up, young man! I'm watching you!

Come on!

Stroke rate! Come on, Boy, stroke rate! Stroke rate!

Tempo!

Hey, Boy. This is Glenn Goodman.

He and his team will be coming to watch you

at the age championships next week.

- G'day, Ben. - Eddie.

So, do you know much about the institute?

We work with some 600 athletes all over Australia.

Many of whom will go on to join the Olympic team.

We've got top-of-the-line gyms,

sports science labs,

nutritionists, psychologists, mentors.

Sounds good, doesn't it, Boy?

Yeah.

Sounds great.

Can I ask you a question?

Why do you swim?

He was born swimming, I reckon.

- Is that right? - Yeah.

Since I can remember.

Well, we look forward to meeting you in Brisbane, mate.

- Thank you. - Cheers. See you, Clarkey.

Yep.

How's your mum doing?

She's good.

And you?

I'm fine.

Look...

..the three of us, we've worked very hard to get where we are.

Let's not let him affect that.

You do well by those blokes out there,

they will make your career.

We're doing five events at the championships.

100 free, 200 free, 100 fly, both IMs.

We'll take any chance that we can get.

Now, you finish third at the Olympics,

you'll be on the medal stand in minutes.

You finish third at these trials,

you're gonna be on the couch for four years.

Good.

This is the biggest meet of your life.

You leave what's going on at home...

..at home.

Now, get out and do your thing.

Bugger off.

You don't have to go to school today.

We can both chuck sickies.

- I'm not sick, Mum. - Just trying to help, mate.

Give me some of that.

Who made that shit?

Shit. Shit.

Drink driving.

Just send me the link.

"Until you make the unconscious conscious...

"..it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

Carl Jung.

What is the unconscious?

Come on, guys. Last class of the day.

The unconscious mind is a part of our brain

that we can't directly access.

When we block things out -

bad memories, trauma -

it leaves our conscious mind

but stays in our unconscious mind.

That's why we make bad decisions.

If we make our unconscious conscious,

we take full control of our own actions.

We direct our own lives.

Boys giving you a hard time, Benjamin?

Why don't we bring your mother in,

talk about what's going on at home?

There's nothing to talk about.

No shame if there is, son.

Where have you been?

Ask your dad.

We'll be late.

How'd it go with those Brisbane guys?

Good. They're seeing me next week.

Holy shit.

I don't know what's going on at school. It's fucked.

It's just another day.

You should talk to my dad.

Get stuffed.

Stop being dumb.

I don't need to talk to anybody.

No. No.

No.

- I'll catch up. - No.

You can wait for every swimmer that showed up on time

to finish, then you can catch up.

I'll see you at six.

You'd be wise to warm up your legs.

The Olympic trials are only four months away!

Let's go again! And get it right!

Set...hup!

Go! Go!

You go!

Go!

Come on, Boy!

You know the difference between a good day and a bad day?!

One hundredth of a second! One hundredth of a second!

Now, we'll stay here all night if we have to!

Set...

Come on, Boy!

Move, son!

Do you want to make that Olympic team?

Do you?

Thorpey didn't become world champion at 15

by not turning up to training.

And Phelps didn't qualify for the Olympics at 15

by finger-fucking his girlfriend down by the river.

They turned up...

..on time...

..over and over and over.

They were focused...

..obsessed.

If you do the work,

you'll be the next face of Australian swimming.

If not...

..you'll be back here washing towels at the local swim club.

Come on.

Stand up.

Come on.

Do you trust me?

I will not let you lose focus, I promise.

And when you are standing up there on that Olympic podium

with those gold medals around your neck...

..you'll understand what we're doing here.

Now, go home.

Get some rest.

..quinella. Australia one, two.

Back down the pool, inside the last 50.

It's Grant Hackett. Thorpe issuing the challenge.

Now half a body length, the margin.

The two Australians have it to themselves,

although Palmer is starting to finish fast.

It's Thorpe coming over the top.

Hackett is trying to hang on.

Great for Australia. Two gold caps riding it out.

Thorpe may be in front. Thorpe, Hackett. Thorpe and Hackett!

They go in, they hit it! Thorpe won it! Thorpe won it!

World champion at 15! That's unbelievable.

That is one of the best tactical races

I have ever seen.

And he was never in front till the last stroke,

and that's when it counts.

I'm down here with Ian Thorpe,

who has just become a world champion at 15 years old.

That was the best tactical race I've ever seen.

I don't know about that, you know?

I wasn't too sure how I was gonna do it, you know.

It paid off this time.

You know, I really can't get over this...

See? Hard work pays off, mate.

You call again and I'll change his number!

I'll get a fucking court order. Do not test me, Rob!

Tonight?

We have to wait until the championships are done.

Alright. Weirdo.

I'm making the Olympic team this year.

Yeah? Then what?

I'm an Olympian.

And all your problems go away?

Get lost.

Boy!

See you.

Are you right for a lift, Patti?

- Need a hand? - It's fine, baby. You go up.

I'm fuckin' going out. I don't care what you fuckin' do.

You can stay in, you can go out. Just fuckin'...

I'm going out.

You fuckin' go out! I don't care!

Competitors in event 35, men's 200-metre butterfly,

please proceed to the pool.

Let's go, Boy!

Take your marks.

You should hear 'em out there.

Hey.

Is that Patti?

You've shot up?

You would have been.. down there.

Well, you...you both would.

I hope it's alright that I came here, yeah?

Look...

..I sent you something.

Did you get it?

Yeah, good. It was your first pair.

I saved them.

You used to wear the bloody things to the dinner table.

It's good to see you swim.

'Cause you were bloody quick.

Haven't seen you swim that fast

since your brother was chasing you down the river.

You whacked him on the back with a cricket bat

and he was trying to kill you, remember?