
Cody Simpson returned to his 'first love' by swapping his music career for swimming and is set to compete at the Commonwealth Games
CNN
As Cody Simpson stood behind the starting blocks at his first Olympic swimming trials last year, the experience felt completely new but also strangely familiar.
With a big crowd watching on and fans chanting his name, it transported him back to the thick of his music when he was regularly performing in front of thousands of people and making live TV appearances.
"I've had the experience of having to get up and do things in front of lots and lots of people that I cared about the outcome," says Simpson. "I knew how to deal with it more than let it ruin me in that moment, I suppose."

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