Yearly Archives: 2013
Endurance – at least my trunks have it
Ready for Bill and Chris’s excellent adventure
The next era of British Swimming starts in earnest this week as Bill Furniss takes up his post as head coach on Tuesday with Chris Spice joining him as National Performance Director a week later. The duo, are seeking to re-invigorate Britain’s performance at the global level.
Continue Reading →ITCs Feel the Pinch
With a funding cut of £3.7m over the next Olympic cycle it was always the case that British Swimming would need to find economies in its operation, inevitably leading to costs being cut in parts of the high performance programme.
It had already been widely reported that the ITC network was under threat, what with … Continue Reading→
Swimmers are Pointless
British swimmers past and present featured on the BBC quiz show "Pointless" last week when one of the rounds asked contestants to recognise them from their pictures. 100 people had previously been asked the same question and the aim of the quiz is to identify the answer which the fewest of those 100 gave correctly.
The … Continue Reading→