With the Olympic swimming programme only days away it’s always good to get an international perspective on how the events will pan out. With Mark Foster’s controversial non-selection for the team, Britain will have no representative in the one length dash, so we sought out top Australian 50m freestyler Brett Hawke to get his views on the sprints in Athens and to try and find out the secrets behind his preparation for his second Olympic campaign.
Continue Reading →The US Olympic team has firmly staked its claim to be the number one squad at the forthcoming Olympics as a further three new world records were established at their Olympic Team Trials in Long Beach California.
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Australian Leisel Jones showed that record breaking was not a purely American phenomenon as she took three one hundredths of a second off the 200m breaststroke world record at a meet in Queensland.
Continue Reading →American Brendan Hansen wrote himself into the record books with a stunning world record of 59.30 in the 100m breaststroke final on the second day of the United States Olympic Trials.
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