SWIMMING
Outdoors in the wind and rain will suit us, says Van der Burgh
Gold Coast — Commonwealth Games swimmers will feel the temperamental weather at the open-air pool here‚ but veteran Cameron van der Burgh says that could suit the South Africans. The South African squad‚ which has been acclimatising in a Queensland resort for more than a week, got a taste of the tough conditions that once put the brakes on the great US swimmer Michael Phelps. "We were swimming there the other night and it was raining and it was a little bit windy so it was actually quite good to get used to what that felt like, because I’ve never experienced that before‚" Erin Gallagher said at the athletes’ village on Monday. "Apparently it can get quite windy at the pool. Graham [Hill‚ national coach] was telling me that Phelps was in this pool once and it was so windy that… swimming into the wind I think he put two seconds onto his 50 [metre] split." Gold Coast has ranged from hot to pouring with rain in the past few days, and Van der Burgh insisted the tougher the conditions‚ th...
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