Roland Schoeman of the Phoenix Swim Club talks with Garrett McCaffrey about his expectations heading into his 4th Olympics.
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July 13th, 2012
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4x Olympian Roland Schoeman, Working for London
Garrett sits down for an exclusive interview with World Record Holder, Roland Schoeman. (Photo Courtesy © Tim Binning, theswimpictures.com)
I love watching this guy swim. Unreal that SA actually had to debate whether or not he would swim the 50 free. His analysis of the 400 free relay is spot on, to a T, 100%. Australia in 2000 opened up the possibility of beating the U.S. team to the world and the South Africans believed they could do it in 2004. The Dutch eclipsing America for Silver was also unreal as PVH had one of the most impressive Olympic splits in history to pull them into 2nd. 2008 as we all know may be the greatest overall swim of all time, anywhere, of any swim, ever in history, and only added to the lore that is the 4×100 free… Read more »
Great interview Garrett. It’s been awesome being at PSC and watching Roland train, but more importantly watching him interact with the other folks in the Gold group and all of the PSC community. He shows all of them that none if this comes easy and in spite of already being a four time Olympian and winning multiple Olympic medals, he trains as hard if not harder than anyone in that pool day in and day out. Good luck in London my friend, I’ll be cheering for you.
Roland….finally we have a world class athlete articulating a training model that correlates with the races you are going to swim in a meet. (SPECIFICITY of Exercise)
Well Done Garrett!
Great interview. As a swim fan, it’s been awesome watching Roland compete in local AZ meets. I hope he enjoys London and comes back to train here for another 4 years.
great intervieuw !!! the London Free relay is gonna be owesome With Roland .