Swimmer Isaac Cooper breaks silence after being sent home from Commonwealth Games camp

• Backstroke champion says he did not use banned substances
• Decision to send him home based on mental health, he says

Australian swimmer Isaac Cooper is pretty low" after being banished from the Commonwealth Games but says he did not take a banned substance. The Australian backstroke champion was sent home from a pre-Games swim camp in France this week for reasons that Swimming Australia said related to some wellbeing challenges, including the use of medication".

My misuse of medication was not banned substances," Cooper said in an Instagram post. It was ultimately my wellbeing and mental health that resulted in me going home.