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Pretty much all of this morning's competitors qualified to progress. John Shortt and Nathan Wiffen are closest to Olympic QTs. Shortt needs half a second on the 200 back while Wiffen went 7:54.60 in the 800 - just three seconds short now.
 
Cate Campbell has retired - a fifth Olympics was just a bridge too far for her and she didn't make it at the Aussie trials last week. I think she has 25+ major medals at Olympics / Worlds / Commonwealths.

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The interesting thing about her is that she had far more success as a relay swimmer - inspiring two generations of Aussie swimmers to relay golds. Her outstanding triple crown is the 4X100 free relay golds in London, Rio and Tokyo - phenomenal. She was an absolute powerhouse and ticked all the boxes of a true Aussie sports great. In a touching finale, when she failed to make the time at the trials last week, all of the other swimmers in her race came over into her lane to embrace and console her. What a great sporting moment.

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The Paris gala will be that little bit quieter without her.
 
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Meanwhile, back at a (slightly) lower level, I’m just back from a week in Tenerife – team manager for the club high-performance warm weather training camp at T3 in Adeje. What an intense experience over the seven days with 49 athletes and their coaches. The Olympic squads start arriving next week / the week after so the place was quiet this week. The upside of that is that we had a full 10-lane 50m pool, an 8-lane 25m pool and a flume to ourselves all week.

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Daily Schedule

08:00 Call / breakfast
09:30 Gym
10:30 Activation session / flume
11:00 – 13:00 Swim session 1
13:30 Lunch
14:30 Rest / Siesta
16:30 Activation session / flume
17:00 – 19:00 Swim session 2
19:30 Dinner
21:00 Daily team meeting
22:30 Curfew
23:00 Lights out


The senior squad covered 73km in the week – which is a very high total for this type of craic. Some experience for youngsters to carry out such a focused run of training – it’s simply not delivered at this level in other sports.

The season winds up with a bit of diversion at the Lee Swim on July 6th, then the junior and the senior nationals later in the month.
 
Meanwhile, back at a (slightly) lower level, I’m just back from a week in Tenerife – team manager for the club high-performance warm weather training camp at T3 in Adeje. What an intense experience over the seven days with 49 athletes and their coaches. The Olympic squads start arriving next week / the week after so the place was quiet this week. The upside of that is that we had a full 10-lane 50m pool, an 8-lane 25m pool and a flume to ourselves all week.

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Daily Schedule

08:00 Call / breakfast
09:30 Gym
10:30 Activation session / flume
11:00 – 13:00 Swim session 1
13:30 Lunch
14:30 Rest / Siesta
16:30 Activation session / flume
17:00 – 19:00 Swim session 2
19:30 Dinner
21:00 Daily team meeting
22:30 Curfew
23:00 Lights out


The senior squad covered 73km in the week – which is a very high total for this type of craic. Some experience for youngsters to carry out such a focused run of training – it’s simply not delivered at this level in other sports.

The season winds up with a bit of diversion at the Lee Swim on July 6th, then the junior and the senior nationals later in the month.
That sounds class. some volume for 15/16? year olds
 
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