Alan Thompson
Alan Thompson
benefit blend exciting experience greatly second serving team teams youth
This is an exciting blend of experience and youth and those swimmers on their first or second teams will greatly benefit from being on a team with so many Olympians and long serving team members.
aim best games looking olympic people possible team
Our aim is the Olympic Games and we are looking to have our best possible team at the Olympic Games in 2008, so we will give the opportunities to those people in the lead-up to that.
consider craig sat spoke
I spoke to (his coach) Tracey (Menzies) and Craig and told them where they sat and now they just have to consider what they will do.
continue grant great happy job last maintain position
I am very happy that Grant is able to continue on with us and maintain his position because I think he did a great job last year.
captain great happy job last
I am very happy he can go on with it because he did a great job as captain last year.
caps compare difference difficult fair huge involved lane physiology strong swim team
It's difficult to compare between eras. There is a huge difference now between goggles, swimsuits, pools, lane ropes, swim caps and the physiology involved in training. But it's fair to say our (women's) team is a very strong team.
decided freestyle relay six starts until
The freestyle relay starts on day one of competition, while the medley relay isn't decided until day six on the program.
huge loss
This is a huge loss to the team.