{"id":30787,"date":"2016-08-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/gold-medallist-kyle-chalmers-proud-grandparents\/"},"modified":"2016-08-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T00:00:00","slug":"gold-medallist-kyle-chalmers-proud-grandparents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/gold-medallist-kyle-chalmers-proud-grandparents\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Chalmer\u2019s endearing quirk"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The grandmother of SA\u2019s Olympic golden boy Kyle Chalmers has painted the swimming superstar as a modest lad who\u2019s always been bashful up on a podium.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s amazing like that,\u201d Kyle\u2019s grandmother Julie Bagnall told FIVEAA\u2019s Alan Hickey on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve watched him at so many different swimming meets. He\u2019ll stand up there on the podium, get his medal, before he\u2019s walked off the medal\u2019s usually off his neck,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnless you say to him when he gets home, \u2018Kyle, where\u2019s your medals?\u2019 you don\u2019t even see them. He\u2019s always been like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/277818069&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The anecdote squares with reports Kyle didn\u2019t want to wear his medal after he won and was painfully embarrassed twenty minutes later when he received a standing ovation in the warm down area.<\/p>\n<p>Julie said she\u2019d spoken with Kyle prior to his race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe sounded very relaxed the other morning when we spoke to him,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust like Kyle. You wouldn\u2019t have thought that he was going for a big swim. He was just normal Kyle, just speaking normally like he always does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also said watching the race, she knew Kyle would come home strong in the final 50m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always now Kyle\u2019s going to come home in the last 50.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn that first 50 you\u2019re sitting there saying, \u2018C\u2019mon Kyle, c\u2019mon Kyle, move it, move it,\u2019 but you always know when he does that turn that he\u2019s going to come home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyle\u2019s grandparents watch him win gold \u2013 WATCH HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F7NewsAdelaide%2Fvideos%2F1251100461587273%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=560\" width=\"620\" height=\"350\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/former-crow-good-to-go-in-top-job\"><strong>FORMER ADELAIDE CROW ALL SET FOR TOP JOB<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/penbo-s-sheepish-apology-to-the-police-commissioner\"><strong>TOP COP PULLS PENBO INTO LINE ON FIVEAA BREAKFAST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grandmother of SA\u2019s Olympic golden boy Kyle Chalmers has painted the swimming superstar as a modest lad who\u2019s always been bashful up on a podium. \u201cHe\u2019s amazing like that,\u201d Kyle\u2019s grandmother Julie Bagnall told FIVEAA\u2019s Alan Hickey on Thursday. \u201cWe\u2019ve watched him at so many different swimming meets. 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