Labor politician Dan Repacholi is just two qualifying events away from getting a ticket to his sixth Olympics.
Federal Labor MP Dan Repacholi is two qualifying events away from securing a spot on Australia's Olympic team for the Paris Games.
"And I think the oldest Commonwealth Games medallist was in his 80s, and that happened at the Gold Coast.""Definitely not, I don't think my wife could handle that," he quipped. Repacholi cited former hockey player Ric Charlesworth, who represented Australia at the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972, Montreal in 1976 , Los Angeles in 1984 and Seoul in 1988.
"So that's what I try and fill in the most that I can, but it all needs to fit around my work schedule."Repacholi grew up on shooting ranges, juggling his passion with work as a fitter and turner and a coal miner."Mum used to work night shifts on Friday and Saturday night, so Dad would babysit us at the pistol club — what we now call parenting.
"And they are good things to have in all of life — whether you're an MP or whether you're a cleaner at Macca's, or whether you're a fitter in between — it doesn't matter what you do, you need to have a little bit of compromise in life as well."
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