We recap all the action from Brisbane, London and Sweden. Its been a fast week in the swimming world

This week on the podcast Shannon and I discuss the massive news in the swimming world at the moment with form 50m events being added to the LA 2028 Olympic program.

Good or Bad? we discuss the pros and cons

Also we talk about King Kyle Chalmers blistering swims over in Norway last week

It's nationals time again, and Shannon gives his tips as we are a week or so away from the years biggest meet in Brisbane.

This week on the podcast Shannon and I discuss last weekends 2025 NSW State Open Champs in Sydney. How Shannon's team went, as well as how the racing was across the weekend.

With Brisbane 2032 Olympics plans rolled out this week we discuss the winners and potential losers in all of the funding and infrastructure coming. How swimming has a lot to be excited about.

We do a blind draft of Olympic Sports, quote of the week, set of the week and of course the always popular song of the week.  

This week Shannon and I sit down with Author, Coach Mentor and Inspiring guest speaker Wayne Goldsmith. Wayne is the founder of MoreGold Peak Performance Consulting and has been involved in the swimming industry now for 35 years learning from some of the legendary coaches of Australia.

Shannon and Wayne discuss stories of Gennadi Touretski and Alex Popov,  Bill Sweetenham, the art of coaching and the importance of progressing as a coach and moving with the times.

We discuss the alarming stats that came out this week around School carnivals here in Australia at the moment with 50% of year 6 students not knowing how to swim, as well as coaching as a profession and do we have a problem attracting you aspiring coaches to our sport and industry.

All that and a whole lot more, Wayne picks song of the week and you don't want to miss it.

Our swimming stats guru David Clark is back this week as we go through the top 10 Aussie swimmers of all time based of David's extensive data and statistics.

From 10 down to 1 we go through some of the biggest names in Australian sporting history, as David gives us some great stories and facts about each of our Aussie legends.

We see what AI thinks of our list, David gives us some stories from his time in Paris for last years Olympic Games, as well as song of the week and plenty more.

Back again for another week of the podcast and this week we are talking City vs Country Teams. Would it work as a concept? And we discuss the contribution country clubs and programs have made to the Australian team over many years.

We read out a listeners email, and discuss the importance of knowing you've worked hard and can be proud of yourself.

We talk cyclones, retired swimmers, song of the week and a whole lot more

They said we wouldn't make it, but we are here this week as The Shannon Rollason Podcast records it's 100th episode.

To mark the special occasion we have enlisted the help of podcast favourite and one of Australia's best coaches Justin Rothwell to help us go through the Top 10 Greatest swimmers of ALL time as per an article that Shannon stumbled across recently. The list is up to November 2023, so excluding some of our current superstars.

From 10 to 1, we go through the very best, and have some healthy discussions around how the list could look a little differently if we put ours together.

Set of the week is back and of course song of the week. Great episode to bring up 100

Thanks to all of our listeners for sticking with us and making 100 episodes possible

This week on the podcast we go back 25 years to 2000 and compare the coaching, the athletes and so much more to the now in 2025.

What has changed?

What has stayed the same?

We look at interesting trivia from the year 2000, as well as set of the week and your favourite, song of the week.

All that and a whole lot more

This week on the podcast we are joined by special guest, Olympian from Sydney 2000 and CEO of NSW Swimming Kirsten Thomson.

In this podcast we discuss Kirsten's amazing swimming career and her Olympic experience, as well as challenges she faced in the pool along the way.

We discuss her transition out of the pool and her decision to become CEO of NSW Swimming.

We talk about what she's proud of so far, what we can all do better, keeping coaches in the sport and a whole lot more.

Kirsten also takes the wheel for Set of the week, Quote of the week and Song of the week, it's a great chat with an amazing leader in our sport. Don't miss it