![]() ![]() ![]() The Brisbane champion has not been beaten over the 200 butterfly distance for four years and that amazing statistic was not about to be changed at the trials last night, even though she admitted the pressure to being the greatest Australian swimmer of all time weighed heavily on her. O’Neill, 24, who won her first swim race as a 10-year-old at the Queensland championships, has come a long way in her 14-year aquatic career, collecting an astounding 30 Australian gold medals. “I’ll go out to celebrate instead,” she said. While the subsequent 1500 metres freestyle race of Kieren Perkins, Grant Hackett and Daniel Kowalski was televised live on Channel 9, O’Neill said she hadn’t even been asked to appear. Susan O’Neill presented with her medal after the record-breaking swim. ![]()
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