Nine epic days of competition in the La Défense Arena and two more in the Seine are done and dusted as the 2024 Olympic swimming programme comes to a close.
For this podcast episode Steve and Katie are joined by triple-Olympian Hannah Miley to look back at the British showing in Paris, one that brought with it 5 medals including a successful defence of the men’s 4×200 freestyle relay, and to pick up some of the major talking points, personalities and performances of the meet.
Events in Paris are upon us, with British swimmers contesting 32 individual events and all seven relays over the nine days of swimming competition in the La Défense arena. That lengthened programme has British interest every day from the point Keanna MacInnes takes to the pool in the 100m butterfly heats on the first morning to the time that the men’s medley relay touch the wall in the last final of the meet. Here’s a day by day preview and a full schedule of when GB’s swimmers are in action.
The Paris 2024 Olympics are almost upon us and with them comes nine days of what promises to be an incredible swimming competition.
On this episode of the Pullbuoy Podcast Steve, Bob and Katie are joined by double Olympian Lizzie Simmonds to look over events in the La Defense arena as we consider GB’s prospects in the pool and the open water in the River Seine.
With just two weeks until the Paris Olympics kick off, the entries for the swimming have been confirmed, revealing who on the GB team will be contesting which events. As we have come to expect from Bill Furniss and Chris Spice they have pulled out a few surprises.