2023 PRO SWIM SERIES – FORT LAUDERDALE
- March 1-4, 2023
- Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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- Prelims: 9:00 AM (EST)
- Finals: 5:00 PM Wednesday, 6:00 PM (EST) Thursday-Saturday
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Coming off of 2021, Matt Richards was a teenage Olympic champion. But the young star went through ups and downs over the 2022 season, the first season of his career that didn’t go as planned. Richards seems to have bounced back after stripping down to the basics and returning to fundamentals that led him to success early on. In his Pro Swim Series debut, he came away with a win in the 200 free and a 2nd place finish in the 100 free.
Now what on Earth is going on in these comments here today
Well spoken! The best to him. It seems like many of the foreign delegations were there for a training camp. It was probably the deepest Pro Series since before the pandemic! Good to have big meets back at the Hall of Fame!
He was certainly talented enough to be on the 4 X 200 relay in Tokyo and take a gold medal. Having said that, I’m not sure this video interview gave me much confidence concerning his future. His personal website certainly has a lot of positive, breezy statements about “true grit” etc., but I’m not sure that we have anything more than a lucky, brash, talented lad who, in the next crunch, won’t be around for Paris. Just a hunch.
Who is his coach?
Nemo
wtf are these comments?
Nemo / Latin / No one
You must be joking! He had the 5th fastest ‘flying’ split on that relay!
nope!
Archive this one. . .
Tokyo Relay Splits: GBR Dominates Men’s 4×200 Free with 3 of the 6 Fastest Legs (swimswam.com)
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Hold this thought. Come back to it next summer and tell us about your hunch then!
Not making the Paris team in less than 18 months seems like a pretty stupid ”hunch” based on his form recently.
I’ve just listened to this and have to say that I think you are totally wrong. He showed insight and maturity. I’m looking forward to seeing how he gets on this season and beyond.
Hey Mike, how’s your hunch looking now buddy? 🤣 Wanna nother go?!
Only lesson Richards took from last season was that he couldn’t hack life at Bath in a senior environment, so moved to school to beat all the kids.
In saying that he looks set to take down at least one of Scott or Dean if not both!!
Translation – “I don’t think Richards is good enough to beat the big names so he ran away, although he did look good enough to beat the big names so I think he will do it”
The SwimSwam comments section is something else man
Make of it what you will. That’s the beauty of SwimSwam comments, man.
He didn’t like being beaten day in day out by Dean, so left Is how I see it.
He is now swimming well, whether he made the decision for good reason or not. Scott isn’t even the fastest 200Fr swimmer in Stirling on recent form, so he has him in sights no doubt.
You know he wasn’t in Tom Dean’s training group right? 😆 Dean and Guy are with Dave Mcnulty and Richards was with Jol Fink, they never trained together, at least get your facts right before you make up storylines to make yourself feel better
Until Fink left and McNulty coached the whole program.
Shall I get your coat?
Just completely untrue, I don’t understand how you’ve seen a guy swim his second fastest 100 Free ever untapered and thought to yourself I need to take this man down, insane, must be some alterior motive that I’ll never know about, Richards is about to breakout and you’re still going to be typing with tears in your eyes, see ya
Which part is untrue?
That’s not true and quite unkind. His GF lost her funding and went back to Millfield and he chose to follow her. That’s his choice (not the best choice IMO) but he seems to be doing well.
Utter tripe.
(The 1st paragraph, not necessarily the 2nd.)
Based on?
Your take is that there’s only one type of environment worth training in and everything else is rubbish, regardless of the results?
That’s a FROSTY take.
No that’s your take.
Pee Wee!!
One size doesn’t fit all.
What is the need to say this? One training environment doesn’t suit everyone.
McNutly is the best coach in the Uk of all time, why leave just because it got a bit tough?
Because he was swimming worse than before? A lot of other swimmers have also seemingly gone backwards/stagnated since joining McNulty like Holly Hibbott, Leah Crisp and even Freya Anderson. Calling Mcnulty the greatest British coach of all time is controversial to say the least
Freya Anderson swam a 200Fr best at World Championships, under McNulty.
More Olympic medals than any other Gb swim coach.
Took Freya 2 years under Mcnulty to edge a PB in the 200 Free which she set in Jan 2020 at a random unrested meet when she was 18. Freya went from being one of the most exciting freestylers in the world pre-Mcnulty to now being someone who will struggle to make an individual olympic final next year. A large reason why Mcnulty has more olympic medals than other GB coach is because he was lucky to have 2 of the most talented male british swimmers GB has ever seen in Guy and Dean under him.
Casually omitting Jackson, Jamieson, O’Connor, Carlin, Walker-Hebborn?
“A large reason why”
Also, Anderson. Olympic champ!
McNulty’s guidance of Anderson is a crime against the profession of coaching. He is very much a one size fits all coach, perhaps the last of his type in the Uk. Successful perhaps, depending on how you measure it.