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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Bumps on the selection highway to Shanghai
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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Swimming Australia has appointed Bill Sweetenham as a mentor to it's top coaches in a move designed to improve their coaching standards and to help reverse a perceived coaching 'brain drain' from the world's number two swimming nation.
Since leaving his post as Britain's National Performance Director in 2008, Sweetenham has worked with national teams from … Continue Reading→
Pullbuoy podcast 7 – Hannah Miley
The podcast returns from an extended sabbatical with a chance to talk to the 2010 pullbuoy swimmer of the year Hannah Miley about her successes last season and her aims for the forthcoming world championship trials.
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Remember: breathe out as well as in
It’s a common complaint amongst newcomers to the sport that they get out of breath quickly, despite being able to do other sports with no such problems. It’s often put down to technical issues with their stroke, or just not being a good swimmer, but in most cases it comes down to breathing. People having this issue are commonly holding their breath and then trying both to exhale and inhale whilst their mouth is out of the water.
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