'I bleed with my athletes:' The story behind Dean Boxall's celebration

The comparisons to an icon of the Australian coach scene, Laurie Lawrence, are inevitable and even more so after Monday, when he reacted to the nailbiting win by throwing his face mask, pumping his fists and thrusting his hips in front of a bemused Japanese pool official.
He later apologised, saying he felt genuinely sorry for breaking Covid-19 protocols in the heat of the moment. But he has never apologised for his exuberance and it is a part of his DNA that has seen him forge such close bonds with his athletes.
“I lost it. I think I went outside my body. I just lost it. That’s a moment of being with this girl for five years and having a dream together,” Boxall said. “The Americans might not like it, I don’t know. But I bleed with my athletes.

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