A post shared by Cody Simpson (@codysimpson)"Growing up competing, and then inevitably having to cut my career short as 13 year old Australian champion when I was given an opportunity in music that I couldn't refuse," he wrote. "I have had the chance to experience and learn so much as a musician from touring around the world, releasing albums, performing as a leading man on Broadway, publishing a work of poetry, traveling with and speaking at the United Nations on environmental and oceanic matters and much more.
For this I will be forever grateful."Still, despite his fame and stardom, Cody said swimming was always tugging at his soul. "Now almost exactly 10 years later, here I am once more.
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