In the SwimSwam Podcast dive deeper into the sport you love with insider conversations about swimming. Hosted by Coleman Hodges, Garrett McCaffrey, and Gold Medal Mel Stewart, SwimSwam welcomes both the biggest names in swimming that you already know, and rising stars that you need to get to know, as we break down the past, present, and future of aquatic sports.
We sat down with Mollie O’Callaghan, the Australian youngster who won 6 medals at the world champs in Budapest. She describes her experience last year in Tokyo swimming and how swimming on only prelims relays kept her motivated heading into 2022. O’Callaghan also reveals that she was not originally a freestyle specialist, her 100 and 200 only coming around to a world-class level in the past 2 years.
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Very modest champion Mollie, So happy she swam so amazing here!🦘❤🇦🇺
SPW’s culture in the younger squads is toxicicity at it’s finest. Dean’s squad’s culture is a bit different to the rest of the club
So Dean’s squad’s culture is toxicity at its worst?
4x 100 free relay add Emma scarey
She is a great girl. I enjoyed this interview. Happy she is in a supportive training and competing environment.
Yes, that’s nice, if true about environment. But other than the token appointment of one female open water coach to international staff, have not seen any documented progress made by Tracy Caulkins-Stockwell or Swim AUS board to address the 46 recommendations of the Independent Commission which examined Swim AUS issues. And the text of the Independent Comm report is still being covered up…
Has anyone done a breakdown of Australian women freestyle swimmers’ times at their Trials versus times in Budapest? I believe that with rare exception (maybe Kiah Melverton?), looking at flat starts and accounting for rolling starts in relays, just about every AUS female freestyle swimmer was slower in Budapest than at AUS Trials. It goes to the “fast pool” or “short pool” hypotheses that have been raised here about AUS pools in the past.
Yeah but the most likely explanation and the one that doesn’t require a collusive deep state is that the Commonwealth Games is just Australia’s primary meet this year.
An awfully defensive response–no one said anything about a collusive deep state.If you talk to pool manufacturers,there certainly can be differences in the way pools are measured and constructed across countries, and the touchpads (thicknesses, new vs worn out, etc) that can be utilized at meets. Certainly a relevant question given previous AUS swim time home vs away disparities. Now let’s see the list of all the AUS women swimmers/events where Budapest times were slower, and we will have that data heading into the Comm Games.
The Adelaide pool was officially measured twice during trials due to the two WRs. You can’t be serious btw.
It is my local pool, feels very long when I am doing laps 🙂
which is 54.6807 yards for our friends in Massacre Central.
Ignorant post ..
Pallister swam PBs in both 400 & 1500. Did not get to swim 800final.
Harris swam 2 PBs in 50free.
Johnson swam a PB IN 1500.
Wilson’s opening 52.99 leg in 4X100 was faster than her time at AUS Trials.
Melverton swam a PB in the 800 free and she was faster than trials in the 400 free heats but not the final.
Neale’s split in the 4×200 free was basically a PB.
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted for stating verifiable facts but I guess some are invested in dismissing Australian performances.
Commonwombat, this is not fair you are using facts against wild sweeping statements ‘just about every AUS female freestyle swimmer was slower in Budapest than at AUS Trials’.
A bit like me saying Ledecky is carrying the US women’s team, no substance just a sweeping statement.
” It goes to the “fast pool” or “short pool” hypotheses that have been raised here about AUS pools in the past.”
Have forgotten 2021 already?
Tell me what happened in Tokyo with regards to Australians swimmers
11-10-9 to 9-3-8?
Are you saying 9-3-8 is bad? What I’m seeing is a country with 13x the population barely winning the most events over a tiny country. That’s pretty incredible for the smaller country in my eyes.
You can recite numbers, but apparently have limited comprehension when it comes to English. This is about times at major meets versus trials, not medals won.
So you’re basically saying Swimming Australia is a deceptive and fraudulent organisation?
And that is based on times just from female freestyle swimmers?
Did the pool suddenly get longer for the male swimmers and non-freestyle swimming females?
WTF?
She seems like a lovely person and very mature for 18!
Thanks Coleman for this podcast.
Are we gonna get a SS Breakdown this week and have you (or @Braden Keith / Mel) tried to contact Caeleb to get further infos on his situation?
Will he go to Nationals/SC Worlds or will Fukuoka 2023 be his next competition?
(BTW, Spire Institute replaced Dressel’s camp that was supposed to happen this weekend with a Michael Andrew training camp.)
No Breakdown this week, but it will be back next week!
I am going to SPIRE camp that was originally Dressel but now MA. We still have no word on Dressel and probably will not until he’s comfortable with sharing.
I thought Mollie earnt the most points in the fantasy draft. (Not sharing the most points with anyone else ).
For some reason I thought her and Torri had tied, but you are right. Mollie 25, Torri 24, my mistake
No worries. Mollie got 3 gold and 3 silver plus a WR so I figured she had to beat 3 gold and 3 bronze
So we didn’t count WR bonuses for relays, but it is interesting because you would think Mollie would’ve outscored Torri by more than that, but then you take into account Torri made 2 more finals that she didn’t medal in (which still scored points in the draft)