Eight-time Olympic Medalist Ariarne Titmus got chills, and they were multiplying as she slid into an ice pool for charity while dressed up as Sandy from Grease.
At an Australian Rules Football game on Monday between Melbourne and Collingwood, several Aussie athletes took an ice plunge while dressed up as famous Australian characters to raise money and awareness for Motor Neuron Disease (MND).
Titmus, who made the top ten on Google’s 2024 most searched Aussies list, dressed up as Sandy from the musical Grease. In the 1978 film adaptation, the character is Australian and portrayed by Aussie entertainer Olivia Newton-John.
In the video, Titmus says the pool temperature is -6°C (21°F). The world record holder is taking the year off before shaping up (Grease pun intended) for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, the Games that she recently announced would be her last. She stayed busy this week, though, between the fundraiser and providing commentary for the broadcast of the 2025 Australian Swimming Trials.
Other athletes to take the plunge included Australian Rules Football icon Peter Daicos, dressed as Heath Ledger’s Joker, and netball player Liz Watson while sporting a cowgirl outfit from Margot Robbie’s portrayal of Barbie.
The event, dubbed Big Freeze 2025, raised money for the organization FightMND. Neale Daniher, Australian Rules Football Hall of Famer and 2025 Australian of the Year, founded the organization while fighting the disease. It has raised over $115 million in Australian dollars ($74.6 million USD) for the cause since 2014.
-6°C water would be solid ice. So that makes no sense. But she looks great regardless and is doing it for a great cause. And I’m always happy when swimmers get some visibility outside the pool. They deserve it!
You can have sub 0°C water that isn’t solid ice
Is that Jeff Spicoli from Ridgemont High in the article pic?
It’s crazy to me that titmus is so committed to retiring after LA.
She is only going to be 31 in Brisbane, and if she can maintain her performance through this cycle she will make more money in Brisbane as the face of the games than she made in the rest of her career put together.
Like I get it in general, swimming is a tough sport and she’s already had a pretty long career. And I could easily see how life could get in the way, or she could just have a decline in performance that made it not worth it for her.
But to be so stubbornly committed to it so far out doesn’t make sense to me.
Well, you can rest easy knowing you don’t have to make that decision.
Good one. 🤙
I’m also not the one who has complained about earning potential in the sport.
Straw man, straw man, what do you see?
So who plays the Danny/John Travolta role?
yeah but I dress up as buffalo bill and I get kicked out of the library
it’s just not fair
Yeah but they didn’t kick you out for dressing up as Buffalo Bill, the kicked you up for peeing all over the card catalogue.
just tryna make it harder to find the Harry Potter books smdh
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I love Greese!
You kept telling me something about lotion. I was just trying to study for midterms.