Word: touretski
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...swimming system and sporting culture that have made the current teenage sensation. "Only Australia could produce Ian Thorpe," says Gennadi Touretski, an Australian team coach who previously coached national teams in the former Soviet Union. "A teenager as Olympic champion - that's the Australian dream," he told TIME, recounting the examples of John Konrads in 1960 and Shane Gould in 1972. Touretski believes swimming is entrenched in the country's culture. Strong local clubs, rather than colleges, breed promising youngsters, he says, the best of whom go to sports institutes as teenagers. Government funding also supports home-based athletes (such...
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