Heart of a Champion: The Greg Welch Story
Jan 1940 · Allen & Unwin
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You're swimming a kilometre offshore. Without warning, your heart-rate shoots up to 320 beats a minute. What do you do? Call for help and try to get to hospital urgently? Not if you're Greg Welch. He was officially the fittest man in the world, unbackable favourite for Olympic gold. Adrenaline was his best friend. Greg Welch would rather die than give in. He almost did. The pint-size Aussie larrikin they call Plucky became world champion in five sports: surf, duathlon, Olympic distance triathlon, long course triathlon and Ironman. But with the 2000 Olympics in sight he was forced to quit his sport and fight for his life. Heart of a Champion tells his story, from cheeky paperboy to the heights of success and the depths of darkness that followed the diagnosis of a near-fatal heart condition, through to the hard-won contentment of his life now.
You're swimming a kilometre offshore. Without warning, your heart-rate shoots up to 320 beats a minute. What do you do? Call for help and try to get to hospital urgently? Not if you're Greg Welch. He was officially the fittest man in the world, unbackable favourite for Olympic gold. Adrenaline wa...
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Before becoming a successful writer, Patrick Lindsay had a long career as a print and TV journalist, working on programs such the Nine Network's Today, Sunday and Wide World of Sports and Channel Seven's Today Tonight and Sportsworld. His previous books include The Spirit of the Digger, The Spirit of Kokoda and Back from the Dead, the story of Peter Hughes, one of the survivors of the 2002 bombings in Bali.
Before becoming a successful writer, Patrick Lindsay had a long career as a print and TV journalist, working on programs such the Nine Network's Today, Sunday and Wide World of Sports and Channel Seven's Today Tonight and Sportsworld. His previous books include The Spirit of the Digger, The Spiri...
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