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Aussie’s Chef de Mission Reportedly Took Issue With Swimming Culture

Even before the situation involving Australian swimmers Josh Palmer and Emma McKeon partying in Rio against Australian Olympic Committee protocol, Chef de Mission Kitty Chiller reportedly took issue with the entire swimming squad’s cliquish culture.

Although no specifics have officially been detailed at this time, the Gold Coast Bulletin is reporting that the team ‘had not lived up to what Chiller wanted with aspects of her one team ideology.’ For instance, athletes reportedly replace the ‘one team’ cheer with ‘our team’, the phrase by which the Dolphins have swum by in the years leading up to the Games.

According to the Gold Coast BulletinChiller stated, “On a whole there has been fantastic buy in to ‘one team’. I’m reticent to discuss it here and now because I haven’t discussed it with swimming.”

“I would like to have the opportunity of doing that first. I would be disappointed if any team or any sport had moved away from our one team concept. I think the majority of sports did buy into the one team and I think everybody did at certain points in time.”

“I acknowledge some sports have their own identity and it’s difficult to not lose that but incorporate their identity into a broader identity at Games time.

“But I won’t make any further comment until I’ve had the opportunity to speak with swimming about that,” Chiller stated.

 

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Caleb
8 years ago

Is this only weird to non-Australians?

BGNole97
8 years ago

Kitty Chiller sounds like a James Bond girl.

Old and tired
8 years ago

Kitty Chiller. Is she like the cat version of the Dog Whisperer?

CraigH
8 years ago

I understand that the cooks get a lot of access to the team, but are the Australian team chef’s thoughts really that newsworthy?

Yada
8 years ago

I’m sorry, but “Chef De Mission Kitty Chiller” is a name and title straight out of a Harry Potter book

completelyconquered
Reply to  Yada
8 years ago

She has a mixtape with Raekwon coming out in 2017.

Yada
Reply to  completelyconquered
8 years ago

ayyyy wu-tang

Zika Ziki
8 years ago

Lochte and the three boys are so lucky USOC doesn’t have a Kitty Chiller.

Ole 99
8 years ago

I think you have to take anything from Chiller with more than a bit of skepticism. She is looking to lay blame everywhere else for the Aussie medal count. 35 medals in London down to 29 in Rio. Same number of gold medals, 8. I’m surprised there’s not more rumblings for her resignation.

bossanova
8 years ago

???

…did they complain about her cooking or something?

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