Britain’s swimmers head to Barcelona this summer to compete in a World Championships. 10 years ago their predecessors did the same, winning a record haul of 8 medals including two golds. Featuring exclusive new interviews with every medallist, this is the story of how those medals were won, in the words of the swimmers who won them.
As the refurbished Tollcross pool in Glasgow, which will host the Commonwealth Games in 2014, prepares to reopen to the public, Robbie Renwick believes that the home crowd inside the venue will spur him on to retain the title he won in back in 2010.
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Endurance. It’s something I used to have back when I thought of myself as a “proper” swimmer rather than the land-lubbing has-been I am now. So when Speedo posed the “Keep Going Swim After Swim Challenge” to try out their new Endurance+ suits, it … Continue Reading→
The next era of British Swimming starts in earnest this week as Bill Furniss takes up his post as head coach on Tuesday with Chris Spice joining him as National Performance Director a week later. The duo, are seeking to re-invigorate Britain’s performance at the global level.
With a funding cut of £3.7m over the next Olympic cycle it was always the case that British Swimming would need to find economies in its operation, inevitably leading to costs being cut in parts of the high performance programme.
It had already been widely reported that the ITC network was under threat, what with … Continue Reading→