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And for 25 years it weighed Australian Olympian Scott Miller down. Drugs and bad decisions destroyed his life until a dramatic arrest and incarceration saved it.
When Miller went to the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 as a 21-year-old, the weight of a nation was on his ample shoulders.
He would win silver, beaten for gold in controversial circumstances by Russian Denis Pankratov, who swam more than a third of the race underwater, to break the only individual men's world record in a final at the meet.
Shattered, Miller threw the silver medal in the bin, only to have it retrieved by his mother, Jenny.
In the 90s, Scott Miller was one of Australian swimming’s brightest stars, his rise to the top of the sport hard won and impressive.
Competing alongside the likes of Michael Klim, Geoff Huegill and Scott Goodman, Miller set the pace, picking up a slew of World Championship medals, his success culminating in a silver medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
But just as his ascent had been rapid, so too his downfall.
In the years after, he struggled to stay on form, his life away from the pool, including his high-profile marriage to Sydney socialite and TV presenter Charlotte Dawson, making headlines for all the wrong reasons.
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Olympian turned convicted drug dealer Scott Miller isn’t expecting everyone to sympathise with his story, as told in an ABC News documentary charting his fall from grace and the rebuilding of his life.
The former butterfly swimmer was so stung by his last media appearance – a grilling by 60 Minutes’ Tara Brown following his 2013 arrest for possession of methamphetamine, for which he received a one-year suspended jail sentence – that he initially said no to the two-part series Deep End: The Scott Miller Story.
But, since his 2024 release from prison, after serving more than three years for his role in a drug syndicate supplying crystal meth, or “ice”, Miller feels the time is right to “clear up a few misconceptions”.
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