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Encore: The Olympic swim coach who spat on a silver medal, and how it changed him
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Laurie Lawrence's obsession with winning Gold started when he was a small boy growing up above the Tobruk Pool in Townsville. When he became a coach, he had an epiphany about the nature of victory.
When Laurie was a child, he had a chronic lung condition that meant he had to sleep sitting in a chair.
Doctors advised his parents that an operation was necessary, and part of one of his lungs was…