Tag: Denis Cotterell
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Coach Denis Cotterell on how Grant Hackett came to happen
Interesting details in this Brisbane Times article titled “Are elite athletes born or made?“, on how coach Denis Cotterell thinks as others that champion athletes like Hackett have benefited from a series of unusual circumstances – including themselves. Hackett had already clocked 10,000 hours in the pool when he was 16 or 17, Cotterell says.…
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“There’s a lot of Hackett in Sun,” says coach Cotterell
Reuters has had an interesting talk with Denis Cotterell, coach of 1500 favorite Sun Yang: “There’s a lot of Hackett in Sun,” a tired Cotterell told Reuters in a phone call from his flat in the Athletes’ Village. “He has a lot of passion for the sport and a passion for speed. “We’ll see whether…
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Stilnox ‘cost Grant Hackett gold’ at Beijing 2008, coach Cotterell reveals
Grant Hackett’s former coach Denis Cotterell has no doubt the controversial sleeping medication Stilnox cost the 1500 freestyle champion his third and historic Olympic gold medal. Read The Australian According to Cotterell, Hackett had slipped into an adaptation phase after swimming two astonishing broken 1500m time trials at the Australian team’s staging camp in Singapore…
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Ian Thorpe has left it a year too late, says Denis Cotterell
Leave it to legendary coach Denis Cotterell of Grant Hackett and Sun Yang to say what many have thought, that Ian Thorpe is too late with his comeback. Via The Australian. “”He’s trying to pack into a year what in reality is a two-year assignment. No matter how good you are … he’s been out…
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Cotterell tips China as major player in the pool
Australian swim coach Denis Cotterell is in a unique position to evaluate the strength of Chinese swimming, given that he has in recent years trained a number of the country’s best swimmers in his Gold Coast-based squad, including fastest man in the world for this year in the 200, 400, 800 & 1500 freestyle, Sun…