Chalmers’ dad says Kyle should have been protected from media

After profitable the 100m freestyle gold medal in Birmingham on Monday evening Chalmers climbed on the lane rope and signalled silence, in a message to the media about his ordeal.

After the race, the South Australian mentioned his final two days had “been hell”.

“I simply hope no-one has to undergo what I’ve needed to undergo over the past 48 hours,” the 24-year-old mentioned.

“It has been an emotional rollercoaster.”

The South Australian ace had been within the headlines of some media organisations after experiences of a rift within the Dolphins camp, with hypothesis about his relationships with ex-girlfriend Emma McKeon and her new companion, fellow teammate and former popstar Cody Simpson.

Chalmers mentioned the psychological anguish had made him take into account leaving Birmingham and even ending his sporting profession reasonably than swimming on for the Paris Olympics.

A tearful Brett Chalmers, who was at their Adelaide residence, mentioned Swimming Australia ought to have accomplished extra to guard his son from the media allegations.

“I take a look at it and assume if it was in a office and also you’re being requested the identical query over and over it’s a type of bullying and harassment and it’s not condoned and it’s not accepted,” Chalmers senior informed informed Ali Clarke’s breakfast present on Combine 102.3 on Tuesday.

“You’d be pulled into the supervisor’s workplace and when you don’t cease you’d most likely lose your job, whereas these folks get away with it, they destroy folks’s lives and livelihoods, it’s fairly onerous.

“I simply don’t get it, why? I assume sporting organisations and sporting golf equipment permit this to occur.

“They (Swimming Australia) failed massively, and so they’ve allowed the media to dictate the questions and saved happening about it – they’ve didn’t take care of their athletes.”

Chalmers mentioned it had been powerful to look at from afar however felt his son was being supported by his coach and his teammates.

“Kyle’s a man that holds it fairly near his chest, there’s little doubt it’s been powerful. It’s been powerful on myself being 15,000km away, I can’t think about what it’s been like for him to not have household and associates or shut kinfolk round him,” he mentioned.

“He’s obtained some good teammates and a very good coach so I’m positive they rallied round him and gave him the love he wanted.”

– AAP