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Matt Richards Learning From the Lessons He Got Last Year

2023 PRO SWIM SERIES – FORT LAUDERDALE

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.

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Sapnu puas
1 year ago

Now what on Earth is going on in these comments here today

Ghost
1 year ago

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!

MIKE IN DALLAS
1 year ago

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.

AqauDuck
Reply to  MIKE IN DALLAS
1 year ago

Who is his coach?

MIKE IN DALLAS
Reply to  AqauDuck
1 year ago

Nemo

Random123
Reply to  MIKE IN DALLAS
1 year ago

wtf are these comments?

MIKE IN DALLAS
Reply to  Random123
1 year ago

Nemo / Latin / No one

Alison England
Reply to  MIKE IN DALLAS
1 year ago

You must be joking! He had the 5th fastest ‘flying’ split on that relay!

MIKE IN DALLAS
Reply to  Alison England
1 year ago

nope!
Archive this one. . .

Flash
Reply to  MIKE IN DALLAS
1 year ago

🤣

Flash
Reply to  MIKE IN DALLAS
1 year ago

Hold this thought. Come back to it next summer and tell us about your hunch then!

Yoo
Reply to  MIKE IN DALLAS
1 year ago

Not making the Paris team in less than 18 months seems like a pretty stupid ”hunch” based on his form recently.

Alison England
Reply to  MIKE IN DALLAS
1 year ago

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.

Flash
Reply to  MIKE IN DALLAS
1 year ago

Hey Mike, how’s your hunch looking now buddy? 🤣 Wanna nother go?!

Swimm
1 year ago

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!!

Coco
Reply to  Swimm
1 year ago

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

Swimm
Reply to  Coco
1 year ago

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.

Coco
Reply to  Swimm
1 year ago

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

Swimm
Reply to  Coco
1 year ago

Until Fink left and McNulty coached the whole program.

Shall I get your coat?

Coco
Reply to  Swimm
1 year ago

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

Swimm
Reply to  Coco
1 year ago

Which part is untrue?

SwimMum
Reply to  Swimm
1 year ago

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.

NornIron Swim
Reply to  Swimm
1 year ago

Utter tripe.
(The 1st paragraph, not necessarily the 2nd.)

Swimm
Reply to  NornIron Swim
1 year ago

Based on?

Admin
Reply to  Swimm
1 year ago

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.

Swimm
Reply to  Braden Keith
1 year ago

No that’s your take.

Admin
Reply to  Swimm
1 year ago

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MarkB
Reply to  Braden Keith
1 year ago

Pee Wee!!

Flash
Reply to  Swimm
1 year ago

One size doesn’t fit all.

Scuncan Dott v2
Reply to  Swimm
1 year ago

What is the need to say this? One training environment doesn’t suit everyone.

Swimm
Reply to  Scuncan Dott v2
1 year ago

McNutly is the best coach in the Uk of all time, why leave just because it got a bit tough?

Scuncan Dott v2
Reply to  Swimm
1 year ago

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

Swimm
Reply to  Scuncan Dott v2
1 year ago

Freya Anderson swam a 200Fr best at World Championships, under McNulty.

More Olympic medals than any other Gb swim coach.

Scuncan Dott v2
Reply to  Swimm
1 year ago

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.

Swimm
Reply to  Scuncan Dott v2
1 year ago

Casually omitting Jackson, Jamieson, O’Connor, Carlin, Walker-Hebborn?

Scuncan Dott v2
Reply to  Swimm
1 year ago

“A large reason why”

Swimm
Reply to  Scuncan Dott v2
1 year ago

Also, Anderson. Olympic champ!

AqauDuck
Reply to  Scuncan Dott v2
1 year ago

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.

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