Archie Goodburn: A medal at G2026 would be huge given everything I've been through

Archie Goodburn was diagnoses with brain cancer two years ago (Image: Euan Cherry)

If timing is everything in sport then Archie Goodburn has made things very difficult for himself.

The 25-year-old breaststroke swimmer’s best-ever time, which he posted earlier this year, would have been good enough to snatch a place on the podium at every Commonwealth Games in history. In many editions of the Games, it would have been good enough for gold.