Gina Rinehart portrait saga: largesse comes at a peculiar value for Australia’s swimmers | Swimming

Many issues have been mentioned about Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest particular person, and never all of them optimistic. However on the planet of Australian swimming, superlatives comes thick and quick. In response to Cate Campbell, a four-time Olympic gold medallist, Rinehart “saved swimming”. Her sister, fellow Olympian Bronte Campbell, describes the billionaire as a “distinctive patron”. To Swimming Queensland chief government Kevin Hasemann, Rinehart is Australian sport’s biggest benefactor since “Santa Claus”.

And so the information that Olympic gold medallist Kyle Chalmers and his colleagues had