Following her failure to make the 200m IM final at the Olympics Sue Rolph launched a blistering attack on the facilities available for Britain's elite swimmers. She seemed to imply that had she had the same facilities as, for example, Ian Thorpe for the last four years, that her performance would have been much … Continue Reading→
There are loads of sites out there dedicated to the Olympics - we aren't going to try and beat them, but we will try and show you where you can find the best information on the web, so below you can find what we believe to be the best places for Olympic information. Happy … Continue Reading→
To get faster at swimming you need to train harder. Sounds obvious doesn't it? Well it might not always be true...
For many swimmers, and indeed coaches, it seems important to be working as hard as possible all the time during training and to swim as many hours as possible. The result? very fit swimmers who … Continue Reading→
A generally successful and well fought trials came to a close last week, with a string of British records and a larger than expected number of swimmers qualifying for the Olympics. Here are our highs (and low) from Ponds Forge:
