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.

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→

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.

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The coming week could prove to be one of the most important in the recent history of British Swimming, with two key announcements to be made. Both could have profound impacts on how the sport travels the two years to Glasgow 2014 and then on to Rio in 2016.

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Swimming Australia moved last week to ban the use of social media, notably Facebook and Twitter, by its swimmers during major meets, in a move motivated by its review into a under par performance at the London Games. The findings of that review indicated excessive social media use, as well as a lack of team unity, … Continue Reading→