By David Davies
As he was once carried off on a stretcher on the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Welsh swimmer David Davies was once celebrating his good fortune. His laborious functionality within the first ever 10 km open water race earned him a silver medal and, extra importantly, a spot in British swimming background. yet what used to be operating although his head as he collapsed from the actual exhaustion of finishing the Olympics' so much gruelling swimming race?
This is David's personal tale. the story of the way a regular schoolboy from Barry made the swimming international sit up straight and take detect. He talks approximately his decision and force and his lifestyles either out and in of the water.
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I obtained right into a reliable behavior early, although. i might wake up, educate, trot off to varsity, then go back to the pool while tuition used to be over for the day. i used to be discovering the learning paintings extra relaxing, extra established and will see myself swimming quicker. there have been loads of gifted teenagers on the membership who have been my age, in order that gave me a few pageant and likewise gave me a few excellent buddies. My oldest and most sensible associates this day are men I met in my early days at Cardiff. As a tender child I used to swim particularly excessive within the water with a quick, quickly, turn-over and that i joined the Cardiff membership within the decrease ranks of swimmers. in fact, again then I had no imaginative and prescient of being within the Olympic video games. i used to be simply there so one can enhance my swimming; to be with larger coaches at a greater membership. however the Head trainer, Dave Haller, got here in in the course of one consultation, after I’d in basic terms simply joined, and that i bear in mind him chatting with my ma and pa and the opposite trainer and asserting, “Don’t swap that boy’s stroke. i do know it’s very unorthodox, yet simply go away him. ” That used to be a vital second in my profession. After that Dave got interested in me and constantly saved an in depth eye on me, and it gave me nice self belief. He had just recently been on tv, simply because he was once our Head trainer on the global Championships in Rome in 1994, and per week later the following he used to be, talking to me. No ask yourself i used to be excited. So he’s been a fully sizeable effect on me, correct from the beginning. he's a visionary who has a lovely eye for recognizing strategy and ability. the right way to describe my stroke is that I swam like a spider crawls: quite brief strokes yet with a really quickly stroke expense. It used to be typical for me and i've tailored it through the years. humans used to assert I wouldn’t be capable to continue that up, and nobody may swim 2 hundred and four hundred freestyle like that, and that i was once simply going to explode. They concept that once I positioned weight on I’d be decrease within the water and wouldn’t manage to do it. I don’t comprehend if it used to be jealousy, or lack of knowledge, yet, at least, I by no means rather permit it hassle me. We lived twenty mins force from the pool. I liked my mom and dad’ dedication using me there two times an afternoon, with early morning starts off, and that i are aware of it positioned a pressure on them. probably understanding that driven me on too. simply because among the a while of 9 and twelve I did rather well at Welsh Age workforce point. the large occasion of the 12 months used to be regularly held on the Empire Pool and that used to be the development I rather desired to do good in. I received seven medals 365 days, 8 the following and concept i used to be the bee’s knees: this was once nearly as good because it acquired! but if i used to be twelve I went for the 1st time to the British nationwide Age teams and all of sudden went from being the large fish in a small pond to pondering that I’d by no means be pretty much as good as those young ones. a number of of them have been very gigantic at a tender age and have been totally miles sooner than me. I wasn’t even making finals. i used to be completing 12th or 13th and that i suggestion i used to be by no means going to make it. yet I saved going and whilst i used to be fifteen I made my first finals at nationwide Age teams and bought silver and bronze medals.