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Craig HunterBen TitleyPosition: Team ManagerDate of Birth: 16.01.61Age: 43Born: Hitchin,HertfordshireLives: St AlbansPosition: CoachDate of Birth: 13.01.77Age: 27Born: CambridgeLives: LoughboroughOCCUPATION: Company SecretaryPrevious Teams: 2000 Olympic GamesOCCUPATION: Swimming CoachPrevious Teams: World University Games 1999,2001, 2003, Commonwealth Games 2002, WorldChampionships 2001 & 2003Away from Swimming I enjoy: Sleeping and eatingAmbition: To have fun and to be true to myselfDavid McNultyChris MartinPosition: CoachDate of Birth: 05.07.69Age: 34Born: Country DurhamLives: Country DurhamPosition: CoachDate of Birth: 28.01.60Age: 44Born: Philadelphia, USALives: Callander, ScotlandOCCUPATION: Swimming Development OfficerPrevious Teams: England Youth Team,World Championships 2003,Swimming World Cup series 2003-2004Away from Swimming I enjoy:Football, going out, good foodOCCUPATION: Coach - Scottish Institute of SportPrevious Teams: World University Games 2003,Commonwealth Games 1998 & 2002,World Championships 1998Away from Swimming I enjoy: Books and travelAmbition: To coach swimmers to the highest level, tocoach Olympic medallists and to have a long career as aGB team staff member40
NEWCOMER’S GUIDE TO SWIMMINGSwimmers often talk using their own abbreviations and words that don’t apply to the outside world.Below is a simple glossary of some of these terms:PB – Personal Best timeSplits – The time at each 50m turn. Swimmers will monitor these to check how they paced a race.Taper – A swimmer will “taper” prior to any big competition. All this really means is that they rest. They will cut backthe amount of training they do and decrease the intensity. While a swimmer may swim over 12,000metres a day duringheavy training, they will swim as little as a few hundred metres the day before an event.Free – Freestyle or front crawl.Breast – Breaststroke.Fly – Butterfly.Back – Backstroke.IM – Individual Medley (Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke, Freestyle). At the World Championships there is a 200mIM (where the swimmer will swim 50m of each stroke in the order above) and a 400m IM (100m of each stroke inorder). Note that in a Medley relay, the order is changed so that backstroke is first. This addresses the fact thatbackstrokers can’t do a dive to take over. Four swimmers complete 100m each in the following order: Backstroke,Breaststroke, Butterfly, Freestyle.Swim-down – A recovery exercise which takes place several minutes after a swimmer completes his/her race.Competitors will swim at a low intensity in another pool in order to rid their body of lactic acid, which accumulatesin the muscles following high-intensity performances.Long Course – The Olympic Games are being held in long course format. This means that all events take place in a 50mpool. Short Course events are those held in a 25m pool. Short course times are faster than long course times becausethe swimmer completes more turns and can take advantage of the propulsion generated from pushing offthe wall.Shaving-down – Most swimmers shave the hair from their bodies for a big meet. Although they will removealmost all of their body hair, the actual purpose is to remove the top layer of skin. This increases the sensitivity and“feel” for the water. Even though a lot of swimmers will wear all-over body suits at the Olympic Games, shavingwill remain an important psychological step in getting ready for a race.The eight fastest swimmers from the heats will swim in the final. For the 50m, 100m and 200m events there will betwo semi-finals as well as heats. These are swum in the finals sessions and the eight fastest swimmers from thesemi-finals will go through to the final the following night.The lane order for finals is decided from times in the heats or semi-finals. The fastest qualifier will swim in lane 4,second fastest in lane 5, third in lane 3, fourth in lane 6, fifth in lane 2, sixth in lane 7, seventh in lane 1 and eighthin lane 8. Theoretically, this creates a spearhead format in the race.During the Olympic Games the one-start rule will apply. If any swimmer performs a false start they will bedisqualified from the race. A false start can involve falling in or moving before the gun. Swimmers must be still forthe start. Any swimmer moving before the start will be disqualified at the end of the race and the start should goahead regardless of the disqualification.41
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Page 5 and 6: MEDIA PROTOCOL FOR TEAM GB AQUATICS
Page 7 and 8: COMPETITION VENUEThe swimming will
Page 9 and 10: BRITISH SWIMMING - AN OLYMPIC HISTO
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Page 15 and 16: TEAM GB SWIMMING STAFFNational Perf
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Page 19 and 20: Chris Cook Age 25Todd Cooper Age 21
Page 21 and 22: Ian Edmond Age 26Adam Faulkner Age
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Page 25 and 26: Darren Mew 24David O’Brien 21Date
Page 27 and 28: Graeme Smith Age 28Gregor Tait Age
Page 29 and 30: SWIMMER PROFILES - WOMENKirsty Balf
Page 31 and 32: Kathryn Evans Age 23Joanne Jackson
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Page 35 and 36: Sarah Price Age 25Katy Sexton Age 2
Page 37 and 38: TEAM GB STAFF PROFILESBill Sweetenh
Page 39: Ian TurnerDavid LylesPosition: Head
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