Is Australia going to be the fastest swimming nation in the world in 2000, and start the new millenium with the fastest swimmers in the world? There is a lot of work to do and not much time available. As the Sydney Olympic Games approach, time seems to go more quickly and tension mounts. We need to answer many questions. In order to predict the situation in the Olympics, I will consider the following issues: predicting the opposition competitive model for each individual event a model of the basic characteristics of each athlete the effects of various training factors such as volume, intensity, race schedule methods of controlling and monitoring the athlete's condition calculating the magnitude and structure of the training loads the principal model of rehabilitation and support for the training process prediction of positive and negative factors during training and competition phases up to and during the 2000 Olympics As a coach I see three key steps in this planning process: increase the number of competitive opportunities (quality racing) improve the swimming technique improve the fitness qualities of swimmers The problem of organizing sprint training is complex despite its outward simplicity. Perhaps sprint swimming is at a lower level of evolutionary development than that of other events in the swimming program. Animal experiments and practical experience show that speed develops 3 to 4 times slower than strength and 23 times slower than endurance. Who is going to be the number one sprinter in Sydney 2000?
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