Alan Thompson
Alan Thompson
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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.
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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.
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I am very happy he can go on with it because he did a great job as captain last year.
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We always use the benchmark from previous meets as a challenge to us, so with the results this week it certainly looks that way.
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We don't want him running the risk of infecting any other member of the men's team and to give himself the best chance to recover.
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We understand Nine's concerns but we've guaranteed Grant will not contravene any broadcast rules and will be sensitive to the network's rights.
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We have given them a couple of days to think about it.
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I would expect that most of them will be swimming quicker now than they were a month ago because they are close to tapering for the Commonwealth Games trials.
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If we don't win the first one, we will go on to the next one.
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Celtic is one of the world's biggest clubs and this agreement sets the seal on an amazing month for me, what with overcoming Barcelona, winning my first cap for England and now signing this extension,
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When Thorpe pulled out and he (Monk) went into those two (races), he was thrust into the limelight and I think he has handled that very well.
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We have picked a team of athletes who we believe will benefit from this type of intense competition in the lead-up to the 2007 FINA world championships and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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I think he showed at the state championships (last month) that he's back ready to go pretty quick. I've got no doubt that he'll go pretty quick.
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I think he can swim faster than at our trials and, if he does that, it certainly makes him a medal contender in the 400m.