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Former Chinese Head Coach Proposes New Format for National Swimming Team

It might be a better solution for the future Chinese national swimming team to adopt a highly-intensive training camp as the main format for their preparations aimed at the next Olympic Games, Chen Yunpeng, the former head coach of the Chinese national swimming team, has suggested.


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It might be a better solution for the future Chinese national swimming team to adopt a highly-intensive training camp as the main format for their preparations aimed at the next Olympic Games, Chen Yunpeng, the former head coach of the Chinese national swimming team, has suggested.

And the national team swimmers could also take training sessions with their native local teams, instructed by their national team coaches, for some time each year as well, Chen said.

The 66-year-old Chen, who retired in 1995, has been a council member of the World Swimming Coaches Association since 1998. He is a member of the swimming competition's arbitration panel at the national games.

China's national team had adopted a highly-concentrated training format as well one which featured national team swimmers training with their native teams, together with their local coaches. The latter had been nick-named as a "Federation Format". There had been heated and consistent arguments on the success and failure caused by the formats thereout.

Highly-intensive training camps, mainly for building-up for major international events, Chen said, helps to gather together China's best swimmers and coaches, adopt the most advanced scientific and technological means and foster the competitive sense among competent swimmers. It can provide fairly more chances for them to learn from each other and exchange experience,not to say it's good for the swimmers and coaches to be well informed of the world's latest development in the field.

And training with local teams helps the national team coaches pick up and bring up new talents at various areas nationwide and promote the overall training standard of local teams and coaches, he said.

"Good and qualified coaches are undoubtedly a pre-condition for bringing up quality swimmers," Chen said. "So it is also of great importance to let national team coaches train their swimmers locally, sometime every year, to promote the country's overall swimming standard," Chen added.




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