Australian Olympic Champion Ariarne Titmus continues to flourish in her post-racing career, with her newest chapter (pun intended) centered on her upcoming memoir, Relentless: Family, Self-belief and the Will to Win, which is set to be published in November of this year.
According to Books and Publishing, the memoir details the life of the Olympic Champion swimmer, including “her family’s move to Queensland to support her Olympic dream and the significant challenges she has overcome.”
In that same report, the book’s territorial publishing and distribution rights were purchased by Australian Publishing company Allen & Unwind from David Malina at IMG Talent.
“Throughout my career, I embraced the pressure and found joy in the relentless pursuit for greatness. My success was built on an extraordinary mindset, a love of the work and the unwavering support of my family. I am not defined by the pool.” Titmus said in the report from Books and Publishing. “By sharing my story, I hope to inspire more people to believe in themselves, chase their dreams and cherish the greatest gift of all, family.”
The book also dives deep into some of the medical obstacles that Titmus dealt with both inside and outside the pool, including the shoulder injury before the 2020 Olympic Games and the issues that led to her surprise retirement from racing at age 25.
“Overcoming challenges and pressure to be the best when it counts on the big stage, time and time again, is what has placed Ariarne in a league of her own, making her an inspiration to many,” said Publisher Sally Heath in the report from Books and Publishing. “In Relentless, Ariarne generously takes us inside her dreams, into the pool and out the other side to encourage us to go after whatever we are chasing.”
Since her retirement from racing back in October, Titmus has taken up a reporting role with Seven News for the Commonwealth Games, and has participated on the Australian Show SHARK!, where she faces her deepest fear of one of the ocean’s apex predators.
Relentless? Oh!!! The irony!!!
Relentless?? Didn’t she just quit the Shark show, crying like a baby, same way she sort of left swimming?
In addition to addressing her shoulder injury, I wonder whether Titmus’ book will address the other injuries and physical maladies that have impacted Coach Dean Boxall’s SPW swimmers:
Titmus–shoulder, hip, cysts (surgery)
Elijah Winnington–shoulder
Jack Cartwright–shoulder (surgery), abnormal heart rhythm
Abby Harkin–knee
Mollie O’Callaghan–knees, shoulder issues, panic attacks, abdominal issues
Clyde Lewis–groin
Jamie Perkins–shoulder (recent surgery)
Shayna Jack–broken hand (“freak injury”), anti-doping violation
Brianna Throssel–femur fracture (running, shortly after retirement)
Also, the weight-shaming/bullying accusations at SPW, where Titmus was the only swimmer to come to Boxall’s defense.
Oh the guy who hates Boxall and just appears out of nowhere with a new username to attack him every once in a while is back. I’ve missed you
Yes he is not fooling anybody by changing username every time.
Next thing we’ll have to hear about again will be the “ex-rugby trainer” conspiracy theory I suppose.
Blaming Boxall for Throssell fracturing her femur after retirement is a nice touch too
Missy Franklin ahh title. Aussies always trying to match the Americans
Titmus is a better swimmer than Franklin.
That’s debatable. Franklin has more Olympic Golds.
But even if I grant you that, the point isn’t about Franklin vs Titmus, it was a joke about Australia and America. It’s pretty clear which of those is always trying to catch/match the other.
I know you’re trolling. Franklin has 2 individual golds vs Titmus 3 individual gold and 3 individual silver. Franklin only has more overall golds if you count a heat relay medal where she was cut from the final for being so slow even though she qualified in the individual lol.
Then again you’re the one that thinks Regan’s 0 golds are better than Kaylee’s 4 so 🤷🏼♂️
Top 3 greatest women swimmer of all time time
Ironically, Ariarne’s famous American rival has her memoir named after an Australian TV show. So 1:1 there.
It is interesting. Missy Franklin published a memoir called “Relentless Spirit” (2016). Ariarne Titmus now publishing a memoir called “Relentless” ten years later. Both gone from competitive swimming by age 23. Relentless? Guess readers can decide.
Top 5 greatest woman swimmer of all time
LOL. Not sure she even cracks the Top 5 women swimmers in Australian history. That’s meant as a compliment to AUS women swimmers (Fraser, Gould, McKeown, O’Callaghan, Mckeon, L. Jones, O’Neill etc etc).
Mckeown, Evans, Summer, Titmus and maybe Katie
isn’t a memoir by default self-written? Who else would write it?
Often there is a ghost writer. Or a collaboration with a biographer.
Quit to early. In a few years no one will remember her
No!
I’d argue that deciding to go out when you’re on top, rather than grinding through another season or seasons, when your heart really isn’t in it, is pretty brave. Not least because it means people would call her a quitter.
Mind you, if she’d stuck around and been slower, SwimSwam comments would call her washed … so it’s 50/50.
What did she have left to prove? Your age group career is nothing compared to what’s expected of top athletes in a program like SPW. Contrary to popular belief, swim training is quite often not fun, and it gets even less so the faster you are. On top of all that, the events she swims skirt that fine line between anaerobic/aerobic and are absolutely grueling to train for. She won Olympic gold, she won World gold, she broke World Records, she beat Mollie, she beat Katie, she beat Summer. And then she did it AGAIN. She went out on top, and when her heart was no longer in it, she retired. To me, that’s far more admirable than masochistically hanging… Read more »