Pop star in Aussie team

Cody Simpson has put the finishing touches on one of the most remarkable stories in Australian sport, completing his audacious switch from international pop star to elite athlete by blasting hisway onto the squad for this year’s World Championships and the Commonwealth Games. The 25-year-old from the Gold Coast, who toured the world as a teenager and countsMiley Cyrus, Kylie Jenner and Gigi Hadad as former flames, finished third in the 100m butterfly to secure a dream call-up to the Dolphins at the Australian in Adelaide on Wednesday night. Simpsonwas a talented junior swimmer and his early coaches had little doubt hewas good enough to compete at the highest level. But once hewas discovered singing and playing his guitar on YouTube, hewas swept up in amusical journey that sawhimmove to LA when hewas 13 and release a top 10 Billboard album.