to make fast starts from the blocks, and attributed his success to his mental approach and his ability to convert his energy into a fast swim in under one minute. He had a deliberate strategy of making himself nervous before the race, feeling that he thrived on pressure. After the 1980 Olympics After retiring from competition, Tonelli did television commentary for the 1984 and 1988 Olympics in Los Angeles and Seoul respectively. Since 2004, he has been a swimming commentator on Sky News Australia. Outside swimming, he worked at a spastic centre for children in Brisbane in the 1980s before opening his own swimming school. He also completed a series for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on their Lifestyle TV program and produced movies on swimming and child development. Tonelli later set up his own computing business, which he ran for three years. He also served as a sports administrator, completing a term on the Australian Sports Commission in its early years in the 1980s. One policy that he proposed was the creation of an athletes' appeal tribunal similar to the Court of Arbitration for Sport so that "officials are now held accountable for their actions". He cited his expulsion from the Australian team as his motivation for having an appeals mechanism. As of 2007, Tonelli was working as a real estate agent and corporate speaker. He married his wife Lee in the late 1990s. See also List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men) List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men) Notes References 1957 births Living people Alabama Crimson Tide men's swimmers Australian male butterfly swimmers Australian male freestyle swimmers Australian male backstroke swimmers Olympic swimmers of Australia Olympic gold medalists for Australia Australian people of Dutch descent Australian people of Irish descent Swimmers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Sportspeople from Ipswich, Queensland Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Swimmers at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games Olympic gold medalists in swimming Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming Medallists at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games