With the Olympic swimming rapidly bearing down on us, Bob, Katie and Steve look forward to the women’s events that will take place in Rio. There are also contributions from Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, Chloe Tutton and NBC commentator, and Olympic champion, Rowdy Gaines.
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Five years ago a young British medley swimmer by the name of Siobhan Marie O’Connor walked onto the pool deck at the World Championships in Shanghai to make her senior international debut. 14th in the 200IM heats and she was off and running, and while her journey that year ended in the semi-finals, it was clear that this was a swimmer who belonged on this stage, having taken it all in her stride.
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Adam Peaty will not need to better his 100m breaststroke World Record to win gold in Rio according to predictions made by German swimming coach and statistician Joshua Neuloh. He has pulled together his quadrennial Swimnex summary of predicted time standards at the Olympic Games which show a time of 58.14 being enough for Gold on 7th August.
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Danielle Huskisson took her maiden international title at the European open Water championships in Hoorn, The Netherlands, as she took gold in the 5km time trial. Jack Burnell meanwhile finalised his Rio preparations with the battling silver in the 10km event.
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