Anastasia Iwanenko

[lindsay]

Anastasia Iwanenko was a great discovery at Trieste. Then she was wonderful in Shanghai. I really admired her. She is only seventeen (if I ma not misteken) and she already became a serious rival for other, experienced swimmers on medium/longer distances.

However, in Budapest she was in such a bad shape. She lost her preliminary races and did not qualify to semifinals. What happened? Why such a drop in form within a few months?

Is it because in Budapest she had to swim on long-course swimmingpool? Or she simply lost her form?

[Bully]

Her coach would probably only know the answer to this, how did the event fall in her training cycle?

[lindsay]

I was really sorry for that kid looking at her in Budapest. The great star facing failure :( I hope she will come back to form. It would be terrible if such a great talent would be wasted.

So, is it possible that when an event falls in wrong time of one's training cycle it can have sucha detrimental effect?

[Bully]

I was really sorry for that kid looking at her in Budapest. The great star facing failure :( I hope she will come back to form. It would be terrible if such a great talent would be wasted.

So, is it possible that when an event falls in wrong time of one's training cycle it can have sucha detrimental effect?

I did my first part of my coaches course today at Bisham Abbey (not that that's important), and we covered just this subject. Training cycles will play a major part on how you perform on the day. Maybe it was the wong time of month, and I can't think of a better way of putting this for obvious reasons, and that's not something we discussed today just experience of how these biological things can effect athletes.