Former Olympic swimming champion Kieren Perkins — now the CEO in charge of dispersing the government's funding of sport — has issued a stark warning to those in charge: take a look outside the bubble because the world is changing.
While the globe's best swimmers from Australia and the USA were entertaining the crowds at the recently revived Duel in the Pool meet at Sydney's Aquatic Centre, Perkins was providing some ripples of his own at a conference running in tandem — SwimCon '22, a two-day meeting for national and international swimming executives and others involved in the sport.
