Jan. 27, 2022
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Three-time Olympic champion Ranomi Kromowidjojo has announced her retirement after a career that spanned more than 15 years at the top.
Aug. 23, 2021
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Golden Games for Dolphins And Rohan Is Now Taylor-made For Paris 2024 Temporary Head Coach Rohan Taylor, the man who steered Australia’s Dolphins to its most successful Games ever at
Aug. 4, 2021
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The 2000 Olympic Games served as a redemptive locale for the Netherlands’ Inge de Bruijn, who used the stage to define herself as one of the sport’s legends
June 2, 2021
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Former Australian head coach Jacco Verhaeren may have left his post down under, but he's now taking over a swimming powerhouse once again.
March 24, 2020
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Australian Dolphins head coach Jacco Verhaeren never for one moment thought that it would get to this – an Olympic year without the Olympics. The seventh and final year of his contract in charge of the number two swimming nation in the world – a coach in charge of a team that now can’t train and headlining a team of coaches that now can’t train them. Alarm clocks locked away with their kickboards, pull-buoys, goggles, flippers and stopwatches for the Australian winter – hopefully ready to be dusted off in the Spring. A man in charge of a high performance team that like the rest of Au ...
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Jacco Verhaeren, “Give yourself time and space.”
March 21, 2020
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With the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak continuing to unfold minute-by-minute around the world, athletes across all sports are grasping at training opportunities with the Olympic Games still on schedule to begin in July. We reported how a group of United States-based National Team and Junior National Team swimmers who were training at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs were sent home after the state ordered the facility to close. The Royal Dutch Swimming Federation (KNZB) was also forced to cease all top swimming activities around the country, shutting down its already- ...
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Most elite Aussie #swimmers still in the pool.
March 20, 2020
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Australia’s head swimming coach Jacco Verhaeren knows first hand that this year’s Tokyo Olympics will not be swum “on a level playing field” and has sent an impassioned and unprecedented message to the world expressing his concerns. To hold;d the Olympic Games from July 24, 2020, would he indicates, be “unfair”. Highlights and the coronavirus (COVD-19) crunch in his message to Olympic bosses.
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Australia’s head #swimming coach warns 2020 Olympics won't be contested "on a level playing field"