July 26, 2024 • 14 mins
Lewis Clareburt begins his second Olympic campaign on Sunday night (NZT) when lining up in the pool in Paris for his preferred 400 metre individual medley heats.
His Olympic campaign begins just eight months after Clareburt shifted bases from Wellington to Auckland and linked up with new coach Mitch Nairn.
Clareburt and Nairn joined Adam Cooper from Paris to talk about their preparation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's get straight into things, though, and start by heading
to the pool in Paris and catching up with Wellington
swimmer Lewis Clarebert, who's at his second Games after debuting
in Tokyo. You'll probably remember just eight months ago Lewis's
Olympic campaign appeared to be at a crossroads with issues
at his Wellington training base and move out to Auckland
and linking up with coach Mitch nan at Club thirty
(00:21):
seven though, quickly got him back on track and in
the right environment. We know this year Lewis won gold
and has preferred four hundred meter individual medley event to
the Dohat World Championships, despite the field missing some of
his main Olympic rivals for Paris, but it was still
a major result for the twenty five year old who
races in that preferred four hundred am event tomorrow night
(00:41):
out time to kick off his Games campaign, the heat
tomorrow nights and then the final Monday morning, New Zealand
time at about six thirty. We are lucky enough now
to be able to head to Paris and join both
Lewis and right next to him his coach Mitch Nhan.
Morning from Wellington guys, thanks so much for fitting us
on to your busy schedules. Lewis will start with you obviously,
(01:02):
Tokyo three years ago with the COVID restrictions and everything,
a completely different experience to all the festivities you've got
in Paris right now. How enjoyable is it being part
of everything that's going on within the New Zealand team
and within the wider athletes village in Paris.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, it's pretty epoquet actually, seeing like the full sort
of I guess the wraith of the Olympic Games and
seeing how everything works. It's quite funny actually seeing you know,
we've just seen two dudes walk past with bikes on
their shoulders, obviously cyclists or something, so like, it's pretty
cool here and I guess the atmosphere is is just
(01:39):
hectic and crazy and I'm here for it.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah. Great. And so in these final few days leading
up to racing, have you been spending much time at
all in the swimming pool or kind of taking a
step back from the real physical work.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
It's actually been quite a lot. We've been in the pool,
you know, almost every day, twice a day, so it
has been quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
And I guess that was.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It's been important because you know, even though we we
came into the village and we've only got a few
days left until competition, we still came in quite early,
so it was important to continue swimming, and just the
nature of my event, you know, it's a longer distance event.
You know, I had to keep sort of pushing all
the way until probably actually today, and I guess from
(02:23):
now now we can sort of start to relax and
actually get to just rest and start some fast than
we ever have before.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, and we'll bring in coach Mitch Nan. Now, thanks
for your time as well this morning. Mitch. How have
you prioritized that training schedule to make sure Lewis will
be peeking over the next few days and keeping him
busy these last few ones too.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yeah, So yeah, obviously we had we had our last
suited set this morning, which was a pretty cool eight
fifties on the forty. We've sort of had developed that
set from Doha, but we did it on slightly slower
leaving side, so lou was pretty much on his times
(03:04):
from back at Doha with twenty seconds less rest this morning.
So that's very positive signs at where we're currently at
so now the focus which is just like Lucy, resting
and recovery. You know, he needs to sleep and now
we might look to do just one session a day now,
so we're just keeping that feel for the water and
starting to fresh up as much as possible. So yeah, no,
(03:26):
we're on the right track and the bodies where it
needs to be, so rest is now the most important thing.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Great to hear a mitch for you as coach your
debut Olympic Games. What's the experience been like for yourself
as part of the New Zealand team, which I imagined
is a very special personal moment as well.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yeah, I mean it's I think I built it up
a little bit, especially the food hall. In my head,
there's been a couple of times where the dining room
has been absolutely packed and there's not been enough food
or they've run out of food. So it's caused me
and a couple of other coaches to hit the gym
until about ten o'clock at night and then we'll head
(04:02):
to the food hall and have dinner because they've normally
got after our burgers and fries and stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
The good stuff comes out out after ten.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
So yeah, I thought there'd be a machas in there,
but no, there's none of that. It's all real healthy food,
so I'll probably come back skinnier than ever at the moment.
But hands down, the best part was probably the welcome
into the New Zealand New Zealand team camp, seen both
the SEVENS teams perform the Harker for us and us
(04:30):
receiving our punamu. That was probably the most special part
so far, as well as entering the competition pool where
we'll be competing.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah. Great, and Lewis, what's been your favorite item from
the buffet so far?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
It's a bit of everything, to be honest, Asian, French world,
which I guess covers most things, and halal, so you
get a mixture of pretty much every corner of the world,
which is quite exciting. But for me, I've been loving
the Asian section getting the sticky right so making us
a poke bowl, So that's been my go to last
(05:03):
couple of days. But I'm not sure how long I'll
be able to hold out eating that every day.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I mean, it's pretty funny, isn't it. Because there are weightlifters,
there are gymnasts, you know, shot putters, people have literally
all shapes and sizes, all different dietary requirements. It must
be damn hard for the chefs getting everything right for everyone.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Honestly, it's we're just actually talking in the and b
were in the dining hall just before and Mitch was
saying how tall a lot of people are, and I
was like, well, there's actually a lot of short people
as well, because there's so many, like you said, there's
so many different athletes here that it's like it's just insane.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Mitch, back to you after the gold at the World
Champs in Doha a few months back, and keeping tabs
on your rivals as well, and all the work you've
done the recent training camp in Mijorca, you're confident from
all the work you've done now that Lewis is exactly
where he needs to be in terms of swimming fast
enough to achieve that spot on the dice.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Yeah, exactly where we want to be, and the times
and the places that suggest that, and it indicates that
we will go faster than we've ever been before. And
I mentioned that that is the goal and that is
the target, and if that results in a metal or
puts us on that dice, then then obviously that's an
added bonus. But the number one goal is to be
(06:17):
faster than we've ever been before, because if we do that,
we know we're in with a good shot and the
indications are that that can happen. We've just got to
put it down, put it down on the day and
we're excited to do so.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
And Met, you only took over the running of Lewis's
campaign eight months ago when he moved up to Auckland
from Wellington. At that moment, did you look to plan
and drastically change how Lewis could prepare for the games
or were you just focused on sort of the minor tweaks.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Not really.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
I mean we've made great changes, you know, month to month,
and we knew the key areas going and where we
can make a lot of ground up in a short
period of time, and we've stuck to our guns and
making sure that those were the key focuses right the
way through to the games.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
And we've also got an awesome support networks around it.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
But you know around us through High Performance Sport and
Z through our club at home Club thirty seven that
has made all this possible. So look again, we're just
trusting the process and what we're doing, and we feel
what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Is right, and we've tested out numerous the times.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I mean, as you guys know, you know, we raced
our Open Nationals, we've rased Doha, we've raced in Australian
Open Champs, We've raced in Sydney back in May where
he was just zero point zero one off the Commonwealth
Games record untaped and unrested, which is the still you
know as the second fastest time in the world at
the moment this year, and that was after the Americans
(07:42):
had their trials and which they were fully tapered. So
again we're in a very good spot. But it's now
it's now rest and it's now a mental game. It's
mentally getting prepared for battle.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And let us you have spent the past month alongside
mentioning a couple of your other teammates at New Yorka
getting red in the sunshine for the Games. I know
you enjoy being out of sort of the limelight of
all the attention from New Zealand when you build up
to things like this. But you're now Emparis amongst all
the buzz of things. How do you absorb all the
messages people wishing you well and wanting you to succeed,
(08:14):
but without adding to any pressure for you.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, it's been awesome, Like just you know, as soon
as we came over to here in Paris, you know,
we felt the support straight away. You know, we see
the comments, we see the messages, and I guess, you know,
people could say there's a lot of pressure on me,
and I probably felt that quite a lot in Tokyo,
but I feel like this time, I'm I'm just confident
in my ability. I'm confident in myself and mentally I'm
(08:41):
quite relaxed, so I haven't really actually felt any pressure
on myself. Obviously, a lot can change in two or
three days until competition, but for the time being, I
just feel like I'm just here going through the motions,
which is exactly what I well, that's exactly where I
need to be.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I feel.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And the more experienced you are as a swimmer at
the Olympic or other top level meets, does that make
you more competitive? Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
And no. I guess you sort of know what to expect,
you sort of know what the pain sort of is
going to bring. But obviously when you're more experienced, you
sort of know how to go through the motions that
are better compared to our first time. First time, so
I guess it definitely as an advantage, but also if
you don't sort of treat it right, then it can
(09:24):
play against you in your head.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
I guess we're still going and you know, as underdogs really,
like you said, there's a lot of a lot of
hype around Leon Mashan and you know swimming worel magazine
doesn't protect Lewis to finish top three, So it's fantastic.
You know, we're we're in a prime position because we
know how fast we've been this year, unrecent and untapered,
so we're going in with our underdog mentality to show
(09:50):
them how it's done.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, you mentioned Leon Marsham there as expected, you'll be
talked about a lot. It's as home games. The world's
record holder in the four hundred individual given he's from France,
is even at the athlete's village. Of either of you
seen him around.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah, I saw him today actually get off the bus.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
We saw him get off the bus and seen him
in the village. But someone else said they saw him.
But I feel like he's just another athlete.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
It's only human.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, So I mean, he's he's one of the top
athletes in France, but I think he's still just being
a normal athlete, which is which is cool to see,
you know. I've obviously spent a bit of time with
him training, so he's a nice guy. He's quite quiet,
so you probably you don't get as much out of
him as as you would have liked.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Lewis people at home watching, I mean, obviously, so you
come out with the music and lights flashing just before
the big races start and you're all introduced in everything.
You wave at the crowd and the cameras. What's going
through your head at that very moment when you're just
about to take to the water in a big race.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I guess I'm just trying to map out the race
and just focus on and what I need to do.
We pretty much, I like to think I'm in like
a bit of a flow state by the time I'm racing,
just essentially going for the motions and making sure I'm
keeping relaxed. The four hundred Medley is quite an interesting
event where it's you know, you have to be quite
(11:09):
controlled and what you're doing, so I guess there's a
lot of focus there, just to make sure I'm keeping
palm and.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Just getting ready, and mentioned in terms of Lewis's shared gill,
it's this big main event, the four hundred i am
first up tomorrow night, ahead of the other two disciplines
over the course of the next week or so. Is
it a good thing having the big one first, to
give it full focused?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yeah, I mean yeah, big one first, Like I think
we would almost prefer it that way for us. So
at Worlds it was the last event and it sort
of felt like we were you know, obviously it was
good to give those other two swims, the two am
and the two hundred fly eat semi finals in, but
you know, it'll be great to just hit the ground running,
big one up first, ready to fire, and all his
(11:56):
competitors are pretty much in the same boat as well,
so I think, yeah, that will be the moment of
tell all and then we you know, obviously we worry
about that race first, and then we start to focus
on the two am and then the two underd fly
in which we've replicated things in training as well as
competition in order to be best prepared for those two events.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
After the four am as well, and.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Just to wrap up Lewis given. You know, the struggles
you faced in Wellington over quite some time, which we've
talked about so much on this show this time a
year ago. We know times are pretty tough with the
public pool space, your coaching situation in Wellington. You took
a chance to head to Auckland eight months ago. Can
you tell us just about that change, particularly the benefits
that you've had from the man that's sitting right next
(12:42):
to your new coach, Mitch.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yeah, it's been awesome and I've been so thankful for
you know, mitching the team for welcoming me into their team.
I know it's never easy, you know, for a club
to take on another athlete that probably requires a little
bit more I guess work then then I guess a
regular person. So I'm thankful that for that Mitch has
(13:07):
you know, has been able to He's you know, he
works bloody hard and I'm thankful for that. And I
guess when I moved, I was quite nervous, But once
I made the move, it just felt like I was
swimming with that restriction. I could just swim and trust
swim as fast as possible. Right like before I was,
(13:29):
I felt like there was a limitter on on what
I could achieve, and now I sort of feel like
the the there is no limited and we're just fighting
for to swim as fast as possible. And that's exactly
what you want as an athlete.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Indeed, and I'm sure it's exactly what everyone back here
wants as well. Lewis Mitch, thanks for your time. Great
to hear you guys in such a good space and
pumped for what lies of heads over the next few days,
particularly tomorrow night our time back here in New Zealand.
So thanks for your time, thanks for fitting us in
with your busy schedules this morning, and from all of
us here in Wellington and around New Zealand, go well.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I appreciate it, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
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Let's get straight into things, though, and start by heading
to the pool in Paris and catching up with Wellington
swimmer Lewis Clarebert, who's at his second Games after debuting
in Tokyo. You'll probably remember just eight months ago Lewis's
Olympic campaign appeared to be at a crossroads with issues
at his Wellington training base and move out to Auckland
and linking up with coach Mitch nan at Club thirty
(00:21):
seven though, quickly got him back on track and in
the right environment. We know this year Lewis won gold
and has preferred four hundred meter individual medley event to
the Dohat World Championships, despite the field missing some of
his main Olympic rivals for Paris, but it was still
a major result for the twenty five year old who
races in that preferred four hundred am event tomorrow night
(00:41):
out time to kick off his Games campaign, the heat
tomorrow nights and then the final Monday morning, New Zealand
time at about six thirty. We are lucky enough now
to be able to head to Paris and join both
Lewis and right next to him his coach Mitch Nhan.
Morning from Wellington guys, thanks so much for fitting us
on to your busy schedules. Lewis will start with you obviously,
(01:02):
Tokyo three years ago with the COVID restrictions and everything,
a completely different experience to all the festivities you've got
in Paris right now. How enjoyable is it being part
of everything that's going on within the New Zealand team
and within the wider athletes village in Paris.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, it's pretty epoquet actually, seeing like the full sort
of I guess the wraith of the Olympic Games and
seeing how everything works. It's quite funny actually seeing you know,
we've just seen two dudes walk past with bikes on
their shoulders, obviously cyclists or something, so like, it's pretty
cool here and I guess the atmosphere is is just
(01:39):
hectic and crazy and I'm here for it.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah. Great. And so in these final few days leading
up to racing, have you been spending much time at
all in the swimming pool or kind of taking a
step back from the real physical work.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
It's actually been quite a lot. We've been in the pool,
you know, almost every day, twice a day, so it
has been quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
And I guess that was.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It's been important because you know, even though we we
came into the village and we've only got a few
days left until competition, we still came in quite early,
so it was important to continue swimming, and just the
nature of my event, you know, it's a longer distance event.
You know, I had to keep sort of pushing all
the way until probably actually today, and I guess from
(02:23):
now now we can sort of start to relax and
actually get to just rest and start some fast than
we ever have before.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, and we'll bring in coach Mitch Nan. Now, thanks
for your time as well this morning. Mitch. How have
you prioritized that training schedule to make sure Lewis will
be peeking over the next few days and keeping him
busy these last few ones too.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yeah, So yeah, obviously we had we had our last
suited set this morning, which was a pretty cool eight
fifties on the forty. We've sort of had developed that
set from Doha, but we did it on slightly slower
leaving side, so lou was pretty much on his times
(03:04):
from back at Doha with twenty seconds less rest this morning.
So that's very positive signs at where we're currently at
so now the focus which is just like Lucy, resting
and recovery. You know, he needs to sleep and now
we might look to do just one session a day now,
so we're just keeping that feel for the water and
starting to fresh up as much as possible. So yeah, no,
(03:26):
we're on the right track and the bodies where it
needs to be, so rest is now the most important thing.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Great to hear a mitch for you as coach your
debut Olympic Games. What's the experience been like for yourself
as part of the New Zealand team, which I imagined
is a very special personal moment as well.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yeah, I mean it's I think I built it up
a little bit, especially the food hall. In my head,
there's been a couple of times where the dining room
has been absolutely packed and there's not been enough food
or they've run out of food. So it's caused me
and a couple of other coaches to hit the gym
until about ten o'clock at night and then we'll head
(04:02):
to the food hall and have dinner because they've normally
got after our burgers and fries and stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
The good stuff comes out out after ten.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
So yeah, I thought there'd be a machas in there,
but no, there's none of that. It's all real healthy food,
so I'll probably come back skinnier than ever at the moment.
But hands down, the best part was probably the welcome
into the New Zealand New Zealand team camp, seen both
the SEVENS teams perform the Harker for us and us
(04:30):
receiving our punamu. That was probably the most special part
so far, as well as entering the competition pool where
we'll be competing.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah. Great, and Lewis, what's been your favorite item from
the buffet so far?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
It's a bit of everything, to be honest, Asian, French world,
which I guess covers most things, and halal, so you
get a mixture of pretty much every corner of the world,
which is quite exciting. But for me, I've been loving
the Asian section getting the sticky right so making us
a poke bowl, So that's been my go to last
(05:03):
couple of days. But I'm not sure how long I'll
be able to hold out eating that every day.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I mean, it's pretty funny, isn't it. Because there are weightlifters,
there are gymnasts, you know, shot putters, people have literally
all shapes and sizes, all different dietary requirements. It must
be damn hard for the chefs getting everything right for everyone.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Honestly, it's we're just actually talking in the and b
were in the dining hall just before and Mitch was
saying how tall a lot of people are, and I
was like, well, there's actually a lot of short people
as well, because there's so many, like you said, there's
so many different athletes here that it's like it's just insane.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Mitch, back to you after the gold at the World
Champs in Doha a few months back, and keeping tabs
on your rivals as well, and all the work you've
done the recent training camp in Mijorca, you're confident from
all the work you've done now that Lewis is exactly
where he needs to be in terms of swimming fast
enough to achieve that spot on the dice.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Yeah, exactly where we want to be, and the times
and the places that suggest that, and it indicates that
we will go faster than we've ever been before. And
I mentioned that that is the goal and that is
the target, and if that results in a metal or
puts us on that dice, then then obviously that's an
added bonus. But the number one goal is to be
(06:17):
faster than we've ever been before, because if we do that,
we know we're in with a good shot and the
indications are that that can happen. We've just got to
put it down, put it down on the day and
we're excited to do so.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
And Met, you only took over the running of Lewis's
campaign eight months ago when he moved up to Auckland
from Wellington. At that moment, did you look to plan
and drastically change how Lewis could prepare for the games
or were you just focused on sort of the minor tweaks.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Not really.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
I mean we've made great changes, you know, month to month,
and we knew the key areas going and where we
can make a lot of ground up in a short
period of time, and we've stuck to our guns and
making sure that those were the key focuses right the
way through to the games.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
And we've also got an awesome support networks around it.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
But you know around us through High Performance Sport and
Z through our club at home Club thirty seven that
has made all this possible. So look again, we're just
trusting the process and what we're doing, and we feel
what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Is right, and we've tested out numerous the times.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I mean, as you guys know, you know, we raced
our Open Nationals, we've rased Doha, we've raced in Australian
Open Champs, We've raced in Sydney back in May where
he was just zero point zero one off the Commonwealth
Games record untaped and unrested, which is the still you
know as the second fastest time in the world at
the moment this year, and that was after the Americans
(07:42):
had their trials and which they were fully tapered. So
again we're in a very good spot. But it's now
it's now rest and it's now a mental game. It's
mentally getting prepared for battle.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And let us you have spent the past month alongside
mentioning a couple of your other teammates at New Yorka
getting red in the sunshine for the Games. I know
you enjoy being out of sort of the limelight of
all the attention from New Zealand when you build up
to things like this. But you're now Emparis amongst all
the buzz of things. How do you absorb all the
messages people wishing you well and wanting you to succeed,
(08:14):
but without adding to any pressure for you.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, it's been awesome, Like just you know, as soon
as we came over to here in Paris, you know,
we felt the support straight away. You know, we see
the comments, we see the messages, and I guess, you know,
people could say there's a lot of pressure on me,
and I probably felt that quite a lot in Tokyo,
but I feel like this time, I'm I'm just confident
in my ability. I'm confident in myself and mentally I'm
(08:41):
quite relaxed, so I haven't really actually felt any pressure
on myself. Obviously, a lot can change in two or
three days until competition, but for the time being, I
just feel like I'm just here going through the motions,
which is exactly what I well, that's exactly where I
need to be.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I feel.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And the more experienced you are as a swimmer at
the Olympic or other top level meets, does that make
you more competitive? Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
And no. I guess you sort of know what to expect,
you sort of know what the pain sort of is
going to bring. But obviously when you're more experienced, you
sort of know how to go through the motions that
are better compared to our first time. First time, so
I guess it definitely as an advantage, but also if
you don't sort of treat it right, then it can
(09:24):
play against you in your head.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
I guess we're still going and you know, as underdogs really,
like you said, there's a lot of a lot of
hype around Leon Mashan and you know swimming worel magazine
doesn't protect Lewis to finish top three, So it's fantastic.
You know, we're we're in a prime position because we
know how fast we've been this year, unrecent and untapered,
so we're going in with our underdog mentality to show
(09:50):
them how it's done.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, you mentioned Leon Marsham there as expected, you'll be
talked about a lot. It's as home games. The world's
record holder in the four hundred individual given he's from France,
is even at the athlete's village. Of either of you
seen him around.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah, I saw him today actually get off the bus.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
We saw him get off the bus and seen him
in the village. But someone else said they saw him.
But I feel like he's just another athlete.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
It's only human.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, So I mean, he's he's one of the top
athletes in France, but I think he's still just being
a normal athlete, which is which is cool to see,
you know. I've obviously spent a bit of time with
him training, so he's a nice guy. He's quite quiet,
so you probably you don't get as much out of
him as as you would have liked.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Lewis people at home watching, I mean, obviously, so you
come out with the music and lights flashing just before
the big races start and you're all introduced in everything.
You wave at the crowd and the cameras. What's going
through your head at that very moment when you're just
about to take to the water in a big race.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I guess I'm just trying to map out the race
and just focus on and what I need to do.
We pretty much, I like to think I'm in like
a bit of a flow state by the time I'm racing,
just essentially going for the motions and making sure I'm
keeping relaxed. The four hundred Medley is quite an interesting
event where it's you know, you have to be quite
(11:09):
controlled and what you're doing, so I guess there's a
lot of focus there, just to make sure I'm keeping
palm and.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Just getting ready, and mentioned in terms of Lewis's shared gill,
it's this big main event, the four hundred i am
first up tomorrow night, ahead of the other two disciplines
over the course of the next week or so. Is
it a good thing having the big one first, to
give it full focused?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yeah, I mean yeah, big one first, Like I think
we would almost prefer it that way for us. So
at Worlds it was the last event and it sort
of felt like we were you know, obviously it was
good to give those other two swims, the two am
and the two hundred fly eat semi finals in, but
you know, it'll be great to just hit the ground running,
big one up first, ready to fire, and all his
(11:56):
competitors are pretty much in the same boat as well,
so I think, yeah, that will be the moment of
tell all and then we you know, obviously we worry
about that race first, and then we start to focus
on the two am and then the two underd fly
in which we've replicated things in training as well as
competition in order to be best prepared for those two events.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
After the four am as well, and.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Just to wrap up Lewis given. You know, the struggles
you faced in Wellington over quite some time, which we've
talked about so much on this show this time a
year ago. We know times are pretty tough with the
public pool space, your coaching situation in Wellington. You took
a chance to head to Auckland eight months ago. Can
you tell us just about that change, particularly the benefits
that you've had from the man that's sitting right next
(12:42):
to your new coach, Mitch.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yeah, it's been awesome and I've been so thankful for
you know, mitching the team for welcoming me into their team.
I know it's never easy, you know, for a club
to take on another athlete that probably requires a little
bit more I guess work then then I guess a
regular person. So I'm thankful that for that Mitch has
(13:07):
you know, has been able to He's you know, he
works bloody hard and I'm thankful for that. And I
guess when I moved, I was quite nervous, But once
I made the move, it just felt like I was
swimming with that restriction. I could just swim and trust
swim as fast as possible. Right like before I was,
(13:29):
I felt like there was a limitter on on what
I could achieve, and now I sort of feel like
the the there is no limited and we're just fighting
for to swim as fast as possible. And that's exactly
what you want as an athlete.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Indeed, and I'm sure it's exactly what everyone back here
wants as well. Lewis Mitch, thanks for your time. Great
to hear you guys in such a good space and
pumped for what lies of heads over the next few days,
particularly tomorrow night our time back here in New Zealand.
So thanks for your time, thanks for fitting us in
with your busy schedules this morning, and from all of
us here in Wellington and around New Zealand, go well.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I appreciate it, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
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