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08-11-2016, 12:03 PM
http://www.wsj.com/article_email/rio-2016-u-s-finally-cracks-swimmings-oddball-stroke-1470777334-lMyQjAxMTI2NzE3MDAxMzA0Wj
But coaches in the U.S. have put on their lab coats. Nort Thornton, the former longtime swim coach at the University of California-Berkeley, spent several years after his 2007 retirement studying the breaststroke.
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He used to encourage breaststrokers to get bigger and stronger to muscle themselves through the water. But Thornton has done a flip-turn on the subject. He now believes that perfecting technique is far more important than spending extra hours in the weight room.
But coaches in the U.S. have put on their lab coats. Nort Thornton, the former longtime swim coach at the University of California-Berkeley, spent several years after his 2007 retirement studying the breaststroke.
[...]
He used to encourage breaststrokers to get bigger and stronger to muscle themselves through the water. But Thornton has done a flip-turn on the subject. He now believes that perfecting technique is far more important than spending extra hours in the weight room.