Category: Competition
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Swimming stars Bronte and Cate Campbell find inspiration close to home
Read The Sydney Morning Herald Australian swim stars Cate and Bronte Campbell do not need to look far for grounding when they feel themselves caught up in ”first-world” problems. When they think things are getting too hard, their younger brother Hamish provides a timely reminder that things are really not that bad. Hamish has cerebral…
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James Magnussen, Cate Campbell and Emily Seebohm plan to set record straight at last
Read The Australian James Magnussen, Cate Campbell and Emily Seebohm are Australia’s “virtual world record holders’’. They are three fastest swimmers the world has seen, they just don’t have the official title to prove it. World 100m freestyle champions Magnussen and Campbell, and Brisbane backstroker Seebohm are the fastest swimmers ever in textile suits and…
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New Aussie coach Jacco Verhaeren wants an Australian swimmer in every Olympic final
Read Sydney Morning Herald The Australian swim team would have a finalist in every Olympic race by the 2020 Games in Tokyo, if not by 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, new head coach Jacco Verhaeren has declared. Verhaeren, the former coach of Dutch Olympic champions Pieter van den Hoogenband and Inge de Bruijn, was recruited…
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Eamon Sullivan aims for 50m in Rio
Read Herald Sun Eamon Sullivan believes he can get back to his best as a one-lap specialist as he targets a fourth Olympics in Rio in 2016. Sullivan will return from the swimming wilderness to compete at a key meeting for the first time since the London Olympics at next week’s Commonwealth Games trials in…
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Denis Cotterell still motivating young talent to make breakthroughs after 40 years as a swimming coach
See ABC Cotterell recalls the first time he laid eyes on a very young Grant Hackett. He was not convinced Hackett, eventually a gold medallist at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics, was even the best swimmer in his family. “He was the younger brother of a very good swimmer, his older brother Craig, and I…
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Danish Open 2014 to decide squads for Europeans and European Juniors
A record number of 95 clubs including 47 foreign clubs will be competing in Copenhagen this week, at the 2014 Danish Open in Bellahøj Svømmestadion, doubling as the Danish trials for the Berlin 2014 Europeans and Dordrecht 2014 European Juniors. Event Landing Page Info sheet in English Press release in Danish Start List Live Timing…
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Dawn Fraser says Aussie coach Verhaeren likely fired if team doesn’t improve this year
Read SBSÂ and ABC Jacco Verhaeren won’t see out the year as Australia’s head swimming coach if the team fails to perform at the Commonwealth Games and world championships, says Olympic legend Dawn Fraser. Verhaeren took over the role from Leigh Nugent in January after a seven-year stint as technical director for the Dutch Swimming Federation.…
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Aussie relay team free of stigma: Magnussen
Read brisbanetimes James Magnussen says Australia’s 4x100m men’s freestyle relay team needed an overhaul after the London Olympics, but believes the new-look line-up is capable of returning to a world-class standard. The controversial team were the face of Swimming Australia’s much-publicised review into a “toxic” culture in the squad during the 2012 Games.
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Michael Phelps could begin racing soon, Bowman says
Read USA Today Michael Phelps could begin competing in meets over the next few months, paving the way for a fifth Olympic appearance in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, his coach said Tuesday. “He’s definitely got himself in pretty good shape physically,” Phelps’ longtime coach Bob Bowman told USA TODAY Sports. Bowman said Phelps has…