For most of the past decade it has been one of the most predictable races at a major championship, with Grant Hackett the undisputed king of the metric mile, but heading into these World Championship it is starting to become one of the most interesting events that will be contested in the temporary pool at Rod Laver Arena.
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the pullbuoy podcast 4 – ross davenport
February’s podcast see us track down winner of the 2006 swimmer of the year poll, Ross Davenport, to talk about his successes last year, and about the prospects of the 4x200m freestyle relay in next month’s world championships. David Davies will also be swimming in Melbourne and our trip into the archives takes us to 2003 when we spoke to him ahead of his international long course debut at the Barcelona world championships.
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the pullbuoy podcast 3 – adam ruckwood
The first pullbuoy podcast of 2007 comes from the poolside at the Cambridge 2007 Short Course meet. We reveal the results of the pullbuoy swimmers of the year poll for 2006 and take the opportunity to speak to Adam Ruckwood about the prospects for British swimming in 2007. There was also the chance to talk to Terri Dunning about her international breakthrough last year.
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