In 1995, Keli Lane looked like the future of Australian water polo. A silver‑medal‑winning performance with the Junior Women’s team at the World Championships in Quebec marked her as one of the country’s brightest young athletes.
By then, she was already being tipped as a possible contender for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. To the public, she was the “golden girl”: disciplined, driven, and seemingly on a straightforward path to sporting stardom.
But behind that image, prosecutors later said, Lane was living a double life built around secrecy.
