Tag: Gennadi Touretski

  • Inside with Brett Hawke: Bill Kirby

    Inside with Brett Hawke: Bill Kirby

    Bill Kirby is an Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer from Australia. He was part of the 4×200 Free Relay that won in front of the home crowd at the Sydney Games. The Australia team, with Kirby on each of them, broke that relay’s World Record 3 different times (1998, 2000, 2001). Bill has recently moved back…

  • 4 videos from when Ian Thorpe competed in Singapore

    Courtesy of The Sports Pages, both interviews and interesting clips from the poolside. Dig his camera entourage here in the first video … And here, the use of some white iPad-looking tablet for video review. We see more and more of that on the pool deck now,

  • Swimmers are bigger today, says Thorpe

    Five-time Australian Olympic swimming champion Ian Thorpe cannot return to competition before November, but came to the Mare Nostrum 2011 meet in Monaco with coach Gennadi Tourtski from his training base at Tenero in Switzerland. Asked how he sees his current capabilities compared with when he dominated the sport, he says “I’m physically not ready…

  • Thorpe to sign deal with Touretski

    According to the Herald Sun, russian Gennadij Touretski, who guided the careers of Olympic gold medallists and world record-breakers Michael Klim and Alexander Popov, is set to formally secure a new coaching deal with Ian Thorpe. Touretski coaches out of Tenero, a small town on the shores of Lake Maggiore, about an hour’s drive from…