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Alex Perry is a non-fiction writer. He spent the last three years investigating Konstantin Grigorishin and the International Swimming League, FINA, and the IOC.
He is the author of The Good Mothers, The Rift, Falling Off The Edge, and Lifeblood, as well as several ebooks, and ghost-wrote Long Shot for Azad Cudi, a British-Kurdish sniper.
His journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Outside, Harper’s, The Guardian, TIME, Newsweek, Roads and Kingdoms, The Sunday Times magazine and others.
Enjoy!
01:00 The Plot to Kill the Olympics
01:45 Konstantin Grigorishin
03:55 Why are swimmers poor?
05:05 Doping Ban
08:20 Matt Biondi, Jason Lezak
09:10 Outside Magazine article
11:40 Fearful?
13:20 What about Konstantin?
15:00 Economic Problem
17:00 Image Problem
19:00 Konstantin meets Japanese team
20:00 What blows your mind?
21:33 Pierre the founder of Olympics
24:00 FINA court case
26:30 FINA pays out
28:00 Threatening Athletes
29:00 Australian Swimming Federation
30:20 Sebastian Coe
31:15 Club Career Centric
33:10 Sustainable
35:15 Liquidity
36:15 Konstantin banned from USA
39:00 What else is there?
DESTRO SWIM TOWERS: Save $150 per double swim tower by using the code "brett" at checkout!
SUPERIOR SWIM TIMING: Run a swim meet with ease from your laptop. SST is fully compatible with Hy-Tek and Team Unify as well as Colorado, Daktronics, and Omega touchpads. Tell them Brett sent you!
SWIMNERD PACE CLOCK GIVEAWAY: Brett is giving away 2x Swimnerd Pace Clocks on the first night of US Olympic Trials. tinyurl.com/swimnerd
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By Brett Hawke
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Alex Perry is a non-fiction writer. He spent the last three years investigating Konstantin Grigorishin and the International Swimming League, FINA, and the IOC.
He is the author of The Good Mothers, The Rift, Falling Off The Edge, and Lifeblood, as well as several ebooks, and ghost-wrote Long Shot for Azad Cudi, a British-Kurdish sniper.
His journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Outside, Harper’s, The Guardian, TIME, Newsweek, Roads and Kingdoms, The Sunday Times magazine and others.
Enjoy!
01:00 The Plot to Kill the Olympics
01:45 Konstantin Grigorishin
03:55 Why are swimmers poor?
05:05 Doping Ban
08:20 Matt Biondi, Jason Lezak
09:10 Outside Magazine article
11:40 Fearful?
13:20 What about Konstantin?
15:00 Economic Problem
17:00 Image Problem
19:00 Konstantin meets Japanese team
20:00 What blows your mind?
21:33 Pierre the founder of Olympics
24:00 FINA court case
26:30 FINA pays out
28:00 Threatening Athletes
29:00 Australian Swimming Federation
30:20 Sebastian Coe
31:15 Club Career Centric
33:10 Sustainable
35:15 Liquidity
36:15 Konstantin banned from USA
39:00 What else is there?
DESTRO SWIM TOWERS: Save $150 per double swim tower by using the code "brett" at checkout!
SUPERIOR SWIM TIMING: Run a swim meet with ease from your laptop. SST is fully compatible with Hy-Tek and Team Unify as well as Colorado, Daktronics, and Omega touchpads. Tell them Brett sent you!
SWIMNERD PACE CLOCK GIVEAWAY: Brett is giving away 2x Swimnerd Pace Clocks on the first night of US Olympic Trials. tinyurl.com/swimnerd
SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL
REVIEW ON APPLE PODCASTS
Connect:
Find | Brett Hawke
On Instagram @hawkebr
on Twitter @insidewithbh
On Facebook @insidewithbh
Find | Alex Perry
On Twitter
Subscribe & Listen:
Apple Podcasts
Spotify
YouTube
Produced by: SWIMNERD
Supported by: Fitter & Faster
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