• Kieren Perkins (Part I)

  • Jun 3 2024
  • Length: 25 mins
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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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