The SwimSwam Breakdown: ISL Season 3, Load Management, & Power 5 Team-Up
In this week on the SwimSwam Breakdown, the Olympics are over and ISL season 3 is coming in hot. Here are this week’s top stories
Olympic Bronze Medalist Brendon Smith Gives His Take on Historic Tokyo 400 IM
Smith takes us through his first Olympic experience, including the historic 400 IM prelims and finals, which saw surprising twists in both
Canadian Olympic Legend and CEO of Swimming Australia Alex Baumann
Baumann’s leadership in sport is covered here, an unpacking of the run-up to Swimming Australia’s success at the 2020 Olympic Games
Bronte Campbell on The Importance of Olympic Timing
Campbell speaks on her experience at the Olympics and how she managed her injuries with the extra year provided by COVID-19 in the lead-up to the Games.
4x Olympic Medalist Summer Sanders on Celebrating Every Color of Your Medals
4-time Olympic medalist Summer Sanders unpacks the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, putting her Swim Nerd cap on regarding key races.
Emily Seebohm Discusses Gold Medal Presentation to McKeown, Aussie Team Culture
Among other topics, We discuss Seebohm’s 4th Olympic experience, where, at age 29, she was actually putting more of an emphasis on the 200 back
Bobby Finke Talks Stellar Closing Speed that Netted Him Double Gold in Tokyo
Finke gives play-by-play of both 800 and 1500 from the Olympic Games, where he had monstrous last-50 splits to pass the field and take the gold in both races
Lydia Jacoby Breaks Down First-Ever Double Taper for the 2020 Olympic Games
With the mixed relay, Jacoby sees it as a learning experience, one that resulted in Adam Peaty calling her a badass after the race.
2020 Olympic Medalist Bruno Fratus Unpacks His Sprint Swimming History
Olympic medalist Bruno Fratus has dropped a 21 second 50m free performance over 90-times in his career. He alone owns that astounding metric…
The SwimSwam Breakdown: Analyzing This Week’s Top Stories in Swimming
I sat down with SwimSwam’s Braden Keith and Mel Stewart to analyze what happened in this post-Olympic week of swimming, which was surprisingly a lot
Elizabeth Beisel Gives In-depth Look at the Olympic Games as an NBC Broadcaster
Beisel gave us the FULL rundown of what life is like for the broadcasting team at the Olympic Trials and the Olympic Games
Bowe Becker on Going From Essentially Retired in 2020 to Olympic Champ in 2021
When Bowe Becker got the call from Jason Lezak to compete in ISL season 2, Becker was living at his parents’ house in Reno and hadn’t swam in 6 months
Erica Sullivan Explains Let Down of US Trials, Fulfillment of Olympic Medal
Erica walks us through her summer, starting at the Olympic Trials where she was experiencing stress to the point of having trouble eating or sleeping
Zac Stubblety-Cook Talks Progression from 10th at Comm Games to Olympic Champ
Zac explains how he crumpled in his first big international scenario and how he addressed this anxiety and pressure moving forward.
Kyle Chalmers Discusses Titanic Battle with Caeleb Dressel in 100 Free
It was great to get Chalmers’ perspective on this because although he obviously wanted gold, he recognizes how much he went through to get to this point
