Stories of Olympians: Kieren Perkins (Part I)
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It’s 1982 and a Brisbane dad carries his nine-year-old son through the doors of an Indooroopilly indoor pool.
The boy has walked through a glass door, his body shredded, he can’t walk and needs 85 stitches to sew him back together.
Father and son meet a swim coach called John Carew.
None of them knew it, but it was an encounter that changed the course of Australian sports history.
The boy’s name, Kieren Perkins.
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