The pullbuoy podcast returns for its 8th year and kicks off 2021 by looking forward to the British Olympic Trials that take place at the London Aquatic Centre next week.
It's a meet like no trials has gone before, with bubbles, reduced fields, and wildly varying preparation … Listen→
With exactly six months to go until the rescheduled Tokyo Olympic Games are due to begin, assuming of course that the current coronavirus complications can be overcome, Tom Dean believes the delay could work in his favour as he seeks to follow in the wake of some celebrated University of Bath-based swimmers.
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The fate of the 2021 Olympics still apparently hangs in the balance, but at the same time there must be question marks over the likelihood of the British Championships taking place as planned in April.
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Two years ago, after a stellar set of performances at the Commonwealth Games, Mark Foster said that Britain’s swimmers had to deal with going from “good to great”, and he was blown away by their performance in Rio.
When pullbuoy spoke to Great Britain Head Coach Bill Furniss at the end of 2015 we asked him what a successful Olympics would be for him and the GB team. His answer was not medals, but a meet where the team delivered their best performance of the year. He wanted the squad to provide a season’s best percentage of 60% and if they did that then the medals would look after themselves. So how did the team fare?
