Not for the first time, James Magnussen has been making waves. Last month he declared his intention to “juice to the gills” to become the fastest swimmer in history in return for $1 million, and to those more familiar with his story this may not have come as much of a surprise.
Rewind to the 2012 Olympics and Magnussen was also accused of causing a bit of a stir.
He arrived in London as “The Missile”; favourite for gold in the men’s 100m freestyle and a member of a rather immodest Australian relay quartet that were known as the “Weapons of Mass Destruction”.
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In the end those weapons proved a little less
