Swimming Australia CEO Kevin Neil disapproves any ban on Denis Cotterell – Swimming News
The CEO of Swimming Australia, Kevin Neil, denied all the rumours roaming about the imposition of ban on Australian coach, Denis Cotterell from training the elite class international swimmers.
Recently, it was rumoured that Australian officials have inflicted a ban on Cotterell for training the group of elite class foreign swimmers. The news rapidly caught fire in the swimming world as it was confirmed by Cotterell’s pupil, Sun Yang of China.
Yang, who holds the world record of the 1500m freestyle, confirmed China Daily that his coach faces restriction from Swimming Australia on training international athletes.
Cotterell has been training Sun Yang for a long time and his squad was recently joined by Ye Shiwen and a couple of other Chinese swimmers.
Yang, improved the world record of 1500m freestyle at the 2012 London Olympics. He also snared the title of 400m freestyle while finished second in the 200m freestyle discipline at these Games.
On the other hand, the 16-year-old Shiwen astonished the crowd at the London Olympics, as she captured gold medal of the 200m IM and 400m IM.
Not to mention, a number of Hungarian swimmers will soon come under the guidance of Cotterell. Nevertheless, the Australian coach has already told that the news is false and Swimming Australia has not imposed any restriction upon him.
After Neil, the outgoing president of Swimming Australia, David Urquhart said coaching international swimmers in the times where Australia faces its one of the worst performance at Olympic level is not good.
“However, we can't stop people from earning a living,” Urquhart added.
While commenting on the situation, Cotterell said, “I said I wanted to have a break (from visiting squads) until the end of the year and just see what was happening. But I sent an email (on Monday) saying I've had inquiries from about 20 already for next
year and I've given them the indication that it's really (up to) Chinese Swimming Association approval. In principle, there's no change. That's the bottom line.”
In addition, Cotterell expressed that his swimmers are struggling hard and he expects more from them at the upcoming competitions.
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