

Achieve the Impossible: Introducing Professor Greg Whyte
I recently met sports scientist Professor Greg Whyte OBE, a principle advisor on CONTENDER, face-to-face for the first time. In my last post, I mentioned that Greg was a sports scientist of international renown. A former pentathlete, Greg competed in two Olympic Games. He was also the Director of Research for the British Olympic Association at the Olympic Medal Institute (2001-2004) and then Director of Science and Research at the English Institute of Sport (2004-2006). But,


WADC 2016
Last week I kicked off work on CONTENDER with a trip to Lund in Sweden for the 2016 World Aquatic Development Conference. As you can see, I was excited to learn that I had been upgraded from a British artist of questionable fitness to an American competitive swimmer... FINA scandals, IOC debacles, doping, burnout (in elite coaches as well as athletes) and innovative training approaches were all subjects on the agenda. Speakers and attendees included Professor John Hoberman fr