Overview
- Cooper missed the final night of swimming and the team’s closing meeting at the Commonwealth Games after qualifying for the 100m backstroke final but withdrawing from the race.
- Multiple sources told reporters Cooper had been out drinking in Glasgow and was seen with alcohol at the Australian team headquarters while teammates were competing.
- Team officials, including head coach Rohan Taylor, called Cooper into a meeting in Glasgow to discuss his absence and conduct.
- Cooper voluntarily stood down from the Dolphins’ athlete leadership group and Swimming Australia confirmed it will not send him home.
- The organisation said Cooper will travel to the Pan Pacific Championships in Irvine and be monitored there, a response framed against his 2022 sending-home over prescription-medication misuse.