- The top pro's can make a comfortable living
out of triathlon but I want to know
what originally they wanted to do
before they did this sport?
And what they would be doing now
if they weren't doing triathlon?
And one other question I'm going to ask is
what sport would they do as a pro if it wasn't this one?
- Um.
- Uh.
- Oh geez.
- Let's think about it.
- Gosh, that's a difficult question.
(fun music)
- I wanted to be an NBA basketball player.
(laughing)
- [Sportscaster] Okay, so you have this sporting dream.
- Maybe a rapper, those were my two interests growing up.
- It was definitely obviously leaning towards swimming
but if it was outside of sport,
I kind of was quite artistic
and I liked photography as well
and that's actually the route my sister's going down
so I'm always a little bit jealous, thinking,
oh I wish I had done that, it might have been a bit easier
but it's nice to see her doing that.
- Yeah, so I was a runner
and yeah, I always thought I'd be a runner with,
you can mix that with a job so a physiotherapist,
and yeah, I always saw myself kind of doing that
and being one of those handy people on tour,
you're in the running camps and stuff,
and yeah, helping fixing everyone.
That was kind of my thing
but yeah, then I found triathlon
and something even better.
- I wanted to be a Hollywood actor.
(laughing)
I'm almost, that's right, I'm totally on camera.
Do something like that,
and then one day I wanted to be a shrimp, swink,
what is it called?
A shrimp?
- A shrink?
A shrimp. - [Michelle] No, no.
That would look weird,
though I'm wearing pink, exactly,
I could be a shrimp, that's also difficult word, right?
- [Sportscaster] Yeah, it's like a psychologist.
- Psychologist, yeah, that's better, so I wanted
to be that, and then when I had to study
at the University I was like, okay,
what can I do?
My grades wasn't that high so I took
a master in sport and health instead, so.
- I always hoped that I would be the sportsman,
and do some sport, first of all, the swimming,
but then I found triathlon and I fall in love with triathlon
so that was my dream and I'm very happy,
so I can pursue this dream, yeah.
Oh, when I was a little kid I wanted to be a vet, for sure,
I love animals and then I worked in a vet clinic for the
summer and then I realized I loved happy, not sick, animals.
I realized pretty quickly, like,
I was not cut out for the healthcare type of profession,
'cause I was a bit, too much of a softy.
(fun music)
- [Michelle] Probably something about talking I guess.
- And you're quite good at that.
- [Michelle] Yeah, I don't know actually, it's pretty funny
because when I finished my master degrees, I was like
should I go out and get a normal job
and that normal job would probably be something
teaching at the university in sport and health,
something like that you know,
but I don't think I would have lasted that long,
you know, I would probably get bored of it, really quickly.
- If triathlon hadn't come along at all,
I'd probably still working a desk job,
in the financial industry.
I was doing that for five or six years, well,
maybe not that long, four or five years,
before both Heather and I just decided to quit
our normal jobs and pursue triathlon full time.
So I'd probably be doing something along those lines.
- [Emma] I'd be a coach, because I think with physio,
people come to you and they don't wanna come to you,
they come to you because they're injured,
they never planned that, and whereas, it's the coach,
they come to you with a handful of goals.
They come to you 'cause they want your help
and they're motivated and yeah, I just love that
and so, I think coaching is even more
kind of rewarding maybe.
- Awesome.
- I mean I've taken a liking to learning
so I probably would go back to school
and take philosophy or religious studies or something,
I don't know, I have an interest in that area of things
as well, and probably one of the reasons why I'm interested
in ultra distance racing is the mind so I'd probably study
theory of mind and psychology and stuff a bit, too.
- If I wants doing triathlon I guess I probably would
just be working full time, I might have a couple of kids,
I would like to have a family one day,
yeah, I mean, I'm not sure.
- And right now if you were not doing sport,
what do you think you would be doing?
- I think I would like to do something around sport
if maybe the coach or helping the athletes,
or anything around the triathlon or sport,
I would really enjoy it.
I think, that's my like,
I feel really good in this environment.
- Riding a dirt bike, like, on big adventures
throughout North American Continent, probably,
yeah, camping, and seeing back country roads, yeah.
- Oh, I mean, I love sort of personal training
and coaching, so I probably would go full time
being a personal trainer or something like that.
(fun music)
- If you could be a pro in any other sport,
but irrelevant of your skill set and your body type,
if you could be any shape you wanted and have any skill,
what sport would you be a pro in?
- I mean, basketball's my first,
first sporting love I think,
and I probably would be an NBA basketball player.
Put another foot on to me and a little more bulk
and maybe that'd be possible.
- I'd love to be a surfer actually,
I'd love to move down to Como and just so,
be at the beach every day, I think it's cool,
so yeah, maybe when I'm retired I'll do that.
- I don't think you've really been to Como
in the winter that much.
- No I haven't
- You wouldn't wanna be a surfer then, I promise you.
- What sport would you be a professional in?
- [Richard] I love triathlon so I would do the triathlon,
so I wouldn't change it.
- Wow, there's no other sport you'd prefer to do?
- I like to do other sports as well,
but I like to swim, bike, run, so.
- Amazing.
Why not don't do it?
- [Annabel] Surfing.
- This is such an Australian also.
We've already had this one, I love it.
- Probably all Australians say surfing but I mean,
it seems like such a good choice.
I mean, I really enjoy the beach
and they get paid well to,
yeah, just hang out at the beach.
I mean, obviously surfing's very challenging
and that's not a skill I have,
like a lot of Australians.
Probably the other one would be tennis.
- What would you like to be a pro at, what sport?
- [Michelle] That's difficult.
Maybe I wanted to be a tennis player
because there's lots of money in tennis, right?
And they also have like, good butts, and stuff like that.
You know?
- Look at Mas Katerney.
- Yeah exactly, and they have like the small skirts
and they could be girly,
yeah I probably would.
They hang out with the cool kids you know?
So, yeah, probably a tennis, yeah,
- [Emma] Well I can't say dancer, my brother's a dancer,
and I swear blind it's not a sport.
So I'm not gonna say dancing,
but probably tennis because it's a summer sport.
I like to think I have a big grunt
and so I make loads of noises on court.
- Come on, give us your grunt.
- Again I'm taping, I'm taping.
- Oh, we'll get her grunt another time.
- One day, one day.
- Brilliant.
- It's definitely a common theme, with surfing there,
when it comes to careers I think sport
reigns in the blood of most of these triathletes,
but hopefully we'll see them all carry on
with triathlon for many years yet.
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