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Five-time Olympic gold medalist and 14-time world champion Mollie O’Callaghan gave 60 Minutes Australia a behind-the-scenes look at some of her day-to-day practices, including her high-altitude tent in her apartment, and opened up about pre-race nerves that had plagued her in the past.
O’Callaghan, among the fastest female swimmers in history, walked 60 Minutes Australia’s Tara Brown through some of her training regimens; among them was her in-unit high-altitude tent, which, according to the interview, O’Callaghan spends somewhere around 10 hours a day inside and 300 hours a month. O’Callaghan comically calls the other version of “glamping” (a term often used to describe luxurious camping).
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“I think it is definitely such a weird thing that not many people get to see that not many people get to see that athletes do in their spare time to try and get that one percenter,” O’Callaghan told 60 Minutes Australia. “[The high-altitude tent] simulates 3,000 meters [at] altitude. It forces your body to actually use the oxygen in your body more efficiently to supply it to your muscles, and especially is the best for aerobic capacity.”
O’Callaghan trains about six kilometers in the water before breakfast, and repeats that distance after lunch. But her hunger to be the best also stems from her training at St. Peter’s Western in Brisbane under legendary head coach Dean Boxall.
“There’s no one part of me that wants to do an easy session. There’s not one part of me that wants to give up because I just don’t think I have it in me.” O’Callaghan said in a sit-down interview with Brown. “It sounds so weird, but I know I have the potential. In each race that I do, each training session that I do, I could improve in that.”
O’Callaghan, who just recently celebrated her 22nd birthday earlier this month, made her first Olympic team at the age of 17 in Tokyo in 2021. She was the youngest member of the Australian Olympic team that year, as she would represent her home nation on multiple relays, but would only swim on the prelims squads, still earning golds in both the 200 freestyle relay and 200 medley relays.
Leading up to the Paris Olympics in 2024, she suffered a panic attack at the Australian Trials, which nearly cost her a spot in her signature 200 freestyle event.
“It was the worst anxiety I’ve ever dealt with,” O’Callaghan told 60 Minutes Australia. “That night I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t breathe, I was just crying because I wanted to do the best that I could, but obviously in that final, it got the best of me, and it ate me alive.”
She ended up finishing behind recently retired Australian superstar Ariarne Titmus in the race at those Australian Trials, but later went on to secure Gold in Paris in that same race, swimming to a new Olympic record in the process.
“I know nerves make me race fast. I know it’s my superpower. I know that I’m going to get something good out of it,” O’Callaghan said.
The 22-year-old freestyler is currently competing at the 2026 Australian Open, where, after just one day of competition, she has already made her mark on the competition, winning the 100 free in 52.66, making her the 2nd fastest performer in the world this season, as she now only trails her fellow countrywoman Meg Harris‘ top season time from December of 52.56.
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