Britain’s swimmers converge on Sheffield this week as the final few places on the plane to the far east and the World Championships of Shanghai are decided. Quite apart from the honour of representing your country, those who make the trip will be giving their Olympic hopes a boost.
Continue Reading →The relative weakness of Britain’s men’s sprint programme over the last ten years has been a running theme but here we find ourselves in 2011, a pre-Olympic year with a world championships looming and nothing having really changed.
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Since winning the world title in 2001, Britain’s 4x200m freestyle relay team has been seen as one of the national team’s greatest strengths, but is it as strong as we think? And can it challenge in Shanghai?
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Selection policies are funny things. The obvious course of action seems to be to pick the fastest swimmers and be done with it, but often federations like to impose a variety of additional criteria, and then in the case of recent events in Australia, not even stick to them.
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It was quite a week in Melbourne, faster than even the most optimistic observer could have hoped as the swimming world continues to move forward apace. The Americans once again dominated, with the rest of the world, bar Australia who hung grimly onto their toes in second on the medal table lost in their wake. … Continue Reading→