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he was involved with the German or Swiss sprinter coach in Brisbane tho?oldcrank said:Not true, my friend.![]()
I remember him having some involvement, with some Australian champion swimmer.
Now, there are a few caveats: it may be an implanted (incorrect) memory. seems it is, by the reckoning with your correction, i receive in good faith.
ii) my memory is correct, but my information was wrong, the info was incorrect, where i read he had contact with Thorpe. Now, I need to be clear on this, I knew Thorpe learnt most of his swimming, and the young success, to his childhood avuncular coach, that is normally the type of coach at a pool who would have also done the learn-to-swim type coaching to make a buck . Then Thorpie moved to a different coach, his former art-teacher in high-school, who was also his in his pool squad, and she may have gone on to the AIS swimmming division in canberra, she made national teams, i am not certain she made an olympics team however. Tracy? someone? not wickham obviously. A young coach, ~ 40ish. not old. She was his art teacher in high school before she ever became a swimming coach.
So I do know Kerrison was never the head coach of Thorpe. He only had those two coaches, that i know of for certain. But he may have had consultants. Well, He did on his return, go to the Russian coach of Alex Popov who turned up with stanozolol in his security safe when he was the head coach at the AIS in the late 90s and early 2000s, Gennadi Touretski. Is online, and wiki if you wanna see. Think Tracy was his coach when he had the positive for lutenizing hormone. He had a bust up with his first coach over money when he saw how much dough his manager Flaskis was making out of him.