The Book Behind the Athlete
When Silver is Gold is an inspiring story about an Australian woman who refused to give in …. and found that coming second at the Olympic Games was as good as gold.
The Book Behind
The Athlete
The Book Behind the Athlete
When Silver is Gold is an inspiring story about an Australian woman who refused to give in … and found that coming second at the Olympic Games was as good as gold.
When Silver is Gold
by Brooke Hanson
The Brooke Hanson Story written with respected sports journalist and author Neil Cadigan, this is Brooke’s story – and what a remarkable journey it has been!
When Silver is Gold is an inspiring story about an Australian woman who refused to give in …. and found that coming second at the Olympic Games was as good as gold.
Brooke Hanson was the baby of Australia’s Commonwealth Games swim team in 1994 with the world at her feet. Yet it took a decade of dogged perseverance, including twice narrowly missing Olympic selection and suffering physical and personal setbacks, before she finally achieved her dream.
Against all the odds, the breaststroker with the beaming smile and effervescent personality won an individual silver medal and relay team gold at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. Weeks later, she joined an exclusive club winning six gold medals at the FINA World Short Course Championships.
Honest, sometimes controversial and inspiring – Brooke details how she nearly drowned twice as a toddler, she takes the reader through to the regime of Olympic training and the obstacles she dealt with outside of the pool.
Brooke Hanson was the baby of Australia’s Commonwealth Games swim team in 1994 with the world at her feet. Yet it took a decade of dogged perseverance, including twice narrowly missing Olympic selection and suffering physical and personal setbacks, before she finally achieved her dream.
When Silver is Gold
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Brooke tells of the scandals in the sport where “baseless lies” almost cost careers, that famous Medley muddle, drugs in sport, standing by her coach when his life was devastated by unproven sexual assault charges, suffering an electric shock– winning and losing – and why she eventually retired.