I was working on my thesis last night, and had the Commonwealth Games showing on the tv in the background. All of a sudden I heard Ray Warren (the announcer) shout “Fargus is going to get gold”! The name Fargus was familiar to me, as I used to train with a girl called Joanna Fargus when I used to live in Hong Kong. So out of curiousity I went to watch the end of the final lap of the 200m backstroke.
Initially I thought Ray was calling the race wrong, because there was an English swimmer coming in second, and it could have been Joanna Fargus. I was amazed to find that at the end of the race that the Australian swimmer was indeed the Joanna Fargus that I used to train with under Captain Harry Wright’s tutelage in Hong Kong! Glad to see that someone from the Mantas/LRC swim team continued to be successful with their swimming!
I just came across this site and I have to say, her winning was the highlight for me. I mean, how Australian is it to have a person who has an Australian Mother, Scootish Father, born in Hong Kong, lived in the UK and now resides in the US swimming for Australia?
If that’s not the true definition of Australian multi-culturism than, frankly, I don’t know what is.