Theodora Taylor will make her senior international debut this summer and will take on a big racing schedule to do so, as she finishes her junior career at European Juniors before heading to the Commonwealth Games and European Championships. It’s the kind of workload she’s become accustomed to however, even if she realises that it can’t go on forever. For now though she is making the most of all the racing opportunities coming her way.
After two challenging years, Jacob Peters returned to form at the British Championships, securing European qualification and putting himself back among Britain’s top butterfly swimmers.
If you’re the reigning world champion and have just finished fourth in the Olympics, a finger tip away from the podium then it might be expected that you’d be back chasing success in that event the following season. But for Freya Colbert a change is as good as a rest in 2025, even if the 400IM remains on her programme for the World Championships.
2481 days. That was how long it had been since his last competitive 400m freestyle when James Guy stepped on the block at the City of Sheffield Winter meet to race the event again. It was a bit lower key than the previous swim which had seen a Commonwealth Bronze medal on the Gold Coast, but it marked the start of a return to the event for the man who remains the British Record holder and who will now take the blocks for 8 lengths of the London Aquatic centre at the forthcoming British Championships.
Lane 6. 24th July 2017, and Ben Proud finds himself in the final of the 50m butterfly at the world swimming championships, the chance to fulfil a lifetime’s ambition beckoning.