Alan Thompson
Alan Thompson
dave past run
It's something I want to run past Ian and Tracey but Dave would be my recommendation.
billion country obvious
In a country of 1.3 billion people, they have an obvious advantage.
huge loss
This is a huge loss to the team.
continue grant great happy job last maintain position
I am very happy that Grant is able to continue on with us and maintain his position because I think he did a great job last year.
aim best games looking olympic people possible team
Our aim is the Olympic Games and we are looking to have our best possible team at the Olympic Games in 2008, so we will give the opportunities to those people in the lead-up to that.
experience horses interested job location love mountains moving people travel western work
This job is well-suited for people who want to work hard. Some of the people who work here just love horses and some are interested in travel and tourism. But many are here because of the location in the mountains and the experience of moving to a western state.
doubt ready state
I think he showed at the state championships (last month) that he's back ready to go pretty quick. I've got no doubt that he'll go pretty quick.
benefit blend exciting experience greatly second serving team teams youth
This is an exciting blend of experience and youth and those swimmers on their first or second teams will greatly benefit from being on a team with so many Olympians and long serving team members.
appear corner excited far turned
I'm not excited yet. It's still day by day as far as I'm concerned. It does appear as if he has turned a corner though, which is something.
deeper happens
If it happens again, we would have to look deeper into it.
decided freestyle relay six starts until
The freestyle relay starts on day one of competition, while the medley relay isn't decided until day six on the program.
deeper found happens start
It is an extraordinary coincidence, you start to think there is more to it, but nothing has been found yet. If it happens again, we would have to look deeper into it.
certainly far good health hear himself woods word
He certainly sounded better and it was good to hear him felling good about himself and his health - but we are far from out of the woods - I think the word is encouraging.
country games interested people reason sort swimming thorpe whether
They're not the sort of games we play. Swimming is a big sport in this country and people are interested in what Ian Thorpe is doing and whether he is swimming, and that's the reason it has been in all the papers.