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veraboy

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Swimming in General

Date: 20/09/00 (368 review reads)
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If you were in a quiz, and the question master asked, “where in Britain can you find an Olympic size swimming pool built to the standard of the Sydney Olympic pool”. Come on answer please.
Well I couldn’t answer the question. People wonder why our swimmers don’t win many medals, or break world records. How are we expected to compete with the rest of the world, unless we build the proper facilities for our athletes? We have the coaches; we have the talent, why doesn’t the Lottery build the right size pools around the country to give our swimmers the opportunity to compete against the best. .

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Last comments:
ermintrude

- 02/08/01

Lottery money funded an Olympic size pool (and a whole associated sports park) here at Norwich, which opened about a week after this op was written! Obviously the publicity didn't get very far :)
Hugo

- 18/03/01

Even though swimmers tend to complain that Britain doesn't have good enough pools that is definitly not the limiting factor in bringing in medals. A few years back the conditions were far worse but yet Britain had many top swimmers. Maybe everyone just felt blamming bad pools would be an easy way of getting away.


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