It’s a little-known fact, but Olympic and world champion swimmer Ariarne Titmus had to jump so many hurdles growing up that the athletics track rather than the pool might have been a more appropriate home for her.
But if the Aussie golden girl’s determination to overcome challenges is any indication, it’s likely she would have triumphed in any sport.
As Peter Overton discovers, her willpower and zest for life are strengths she has had from day one, and there is a very good reason for that: Ariarne’s first minutes in this world came perilously close to being her last.
Reporter: Peter Overton – Producer: Laura Sparkes
IN TOO DEEP
These days Giancarlo Granda knows better than anyone that religion, sex and politics make an unholy trinity. When he was working as a young pool attendant at a ritzy hotel in Florida he met an older woman who wanted to get to know him.
Giancarlo was invited back to her hotel suite, but when he arrived was shocked to find the woman’s husband waiting in the room. And then there was another surprise. He realised his new friends were Becki and Jerry Falwell Jr, two of the biggest names in America’s evangelical movement. In fact, Jerry Falwell was also a political kingmaker who helped Donald Trump win the U.S. presidency in 2016.
But as Tom Steinfort reports, the biggest surprise of all for Giancarlo Granda was the god-awful, decade-long mess created when he tried to expose the truth about these religious hypocrites.
Reporter: Tom Steinfort – Producer: Sheree Gibson
