FISH & SIPS
Australia’s all-conquering swim team celebrate golden carnival with fun night at The Star
AUSTRALIA’S champion Commonwealth Games swim team – except the teenagers – has soaked up a campaign after-party to 3am, swapping the lane pool for the party pool.
About 400 people including just about all of the dominant Australian Dolphins swim team, family and friends partied at The Star’s rooftop bar Nineteen into the early hours yesterday after their triumph at the aquatic centre.
Members of other teams including the English squad joined in the fun, with one partygoer telling the Bulletin it was a surreal scene.
“Everywhere you looked it was like ‘There is a gold medallist, there is a gold medallist, there is another gold medallist’. It was a very proud and happy night. It was jubilant in there but nothing too radical.”
Given the swanky new venue’s infinity pool overlooking the city skyline, English freestyler James Guy joked: “(Australian 400m freestyle gold medallist) Mack Horton and I might have a head to head in it, we’ll have to wait and see.”
Attendees included Gold Coast freestyler Cameron McEvoy, dubbed “The Professor” for his passion for physics, and his glamorous legal beagle girlfriend Violet Grace-Atkinson.
Others included freestylers Cate Campbell, James Magnussen and Kyle Chalmers whose haul of four Games golds included bringing home a last-gasp win in the 4x100m relay just hours earlier.
Notable absentees were 17-yearold emerging stars, triple goldwinning Brisbane schoolgirl Ariarne Titmus and Elijah Winnington who helped the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay team win gold.
Winnington turned up to fulfil media commitments at The Star while his teammates headed upstairs to unwind – he said he’d be stuck in the athletes village for the night.
“I’m still 17 so I don’t think I will be partying too hard tonight. I’m sure the other guys will light it up.”
It was jubilant in there but nothing too radical