I'm not a quitter: GB swimming 長，指導者 公約するs to carry on にもかかわらず disappointing Games in the pool

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The 業績／成果 director of British swimming ― the sport that has been the one big 失望 at an さもなければ gloriously successful Olympics for the host nation ― said yesterday that he was ‘gutted’ with the Team GB 業績／成果s in the pool and said a review of the 失敗 is under way.

Michael Scott, an Australian who has been in his 地位，任命する since late 2007, said that everything from the 量 of 競争の激しい 会合s that British swimmers …に出席する to the トン of their Twitter postings will come under scrutiny.

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It has become a feature within British swimming? for の近くに-knit team-mates to tweet their congratulations to each other, even when they 落ちる short of the podium. ‘The 問題／発行する of how our 競技者s 公然と 反映する on their 業績／成果s is an 問題／発行する,’ 認める Scott.

He did 主張する, however, that while some swimmers m ight not seem upset at their 失敗s, he had ‘seen the 涙／ほころびs in 私的な’.

On his 使節団 to turn things around, he said: ‘We are here to be successful and success is 手段d by podium 業績／成果s ― and we didn’t 達成する that.’

Staying put: 業績／成果 director Michael Scott says he won't やめる

Looking visibly shaken, he 追加するd: ‘On a personal level, I’ve never experienced a low like this.’The review will 含む input from ‘two 独立した・無所属 任命s of? high standing’ ―? with 指名するs to be 確認するd. They are likely to come from outside swimming and may draw on 専門的知識 from more successful sports, such as triathlon and 列／漕ぐ／騒動ing.

Having won six メダルs, 含むing Rebecca Adlington’s two golds in Beijing, in the pool and open water 連合させるd, Britain’s swimmers had a 的 of between five and seven メダルs for London 2012. They won three: two bronzes for Adlington and a silver by Michael Jamieson.

The sport has received more than £25million for? its エリート programme in the four-year cycle 主要な up? to these Games, making it one of the ‘big five’ 基金d sports. But 反して cycling, 列／漕ぐ／騒動ing, 運動競技のs and sailing have 配達するd on their 的s, swimming has been conspicuously alone in 爆破 out.

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Scott says he will not 辞職する. He 保持するs the 信用／信任 of David 誘発するs, the 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of British swimming, who is 平等に 会社／堅い about his 意向 to stay in his 役割. ‘My style is not to やめる,’ said Scott. ‘It’s not to walk away, and I won’t be walking away.’

The review, 述べるd as a ‘業績／成果 de-簡潔な／要約する’, will last until October and 伴う／関わる 尋問 all the swimmers on what went wrong, 同様に as their coaches and other support staff.

Training patterns will be scrutinised, as will the 量 of 競争の激しい swimming Britain’s 競技者s do. Scott hinted they may need more racing experience at more major 会合s.

‘I don’t want to pre-empt the de-簡潔な／要約する 過程,’ he said, explaining why he would not be more explicit.
British swimming 推定する／予想するs it s cash to be 削減（する） when? UK Sport make their next 基金ing 決定／判定勝ち（する）s ― based on success ― in December.

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Scott, whose 契約 at British Swimming was 延長するd for four years before these Games, says he will argue ‘passionately’ to keep it, but said: ‘We most likely will have to be leaner and meaner. We are going to have to 投資する our money in those areas where we believe we are going to get the 業績／成果 results.’

Britain had more finalists in the pool than ever but, of those 23 finalists, 20 failed? to produce メダルs and only eight even finished inside the first five in their 決勝戦. Scott said: ‘I do not want to feel again what I am feeling now.’