- The appearance of the best mentor in photos has sport in shock
- Michael Bohl is the name behind large Australian stars
Australian swimmers are in shock of frustration after the photos surfaced the venerated coach Michael Bohl working with Chinese athletes involved in a controversial doping scandal.
Bohl, a veteran mentor who directed athletes like Kaylee McKeown, Emma McKeon and Stephanie Rice at Olympic Gold, recently played a new role with Chinese Swimming Association as an advisor to Shanghai and Beijing.
This week, photos emerged from Bohl in a Chinese team shirt posing with the swimmers Qin Haiyang and Zhang Yufei.
The Australian coach helps prepare the team for the next Olympic Games in Los Angeles – including 23 swimmers who have been tested positive for trimetazidine (TMZ) before the Tokyo Olympic Games.
The athletes were eliminated on the basis of a conclusion that they had unconsciously ingested the drug via contaminated food.
An investigation later revealed that 25 Australian swimmers had been beaten by the swimmers in question during the three years preceding the Paris Games.
Chinese swimmer Zhang Yufei was photographed with Australian coach Michael Bohl
The Australian swimming mentor was also represented with the best swimmer Qin Haiyang
The problem largely overshadowed the construction of Paris 2024 and led to the distrust of several swimmers.
“We ask questions and push the accent to the nth degree on our own ribs,” said Australian swimmer Mack Horton.
“I do not know if we trace the line at our border or in our nation or if we have to take more property in the world, I do not actually have the answer.
“But if we all want it to work better, and that we want a better world, which is a kind of big declaration, it starts with us and being better to expect high standards of others.”
Bohl told Chinese media that the future of their nation in the pool was brilliant.
“I think that when Pan (Zahle) appears and wins an Olympic gold medal, this gives the swimming population in China much more confidence and confidence,” he told Xinhua.
“Seeing someone from their country perform well at the highest level is very confident in the nation.
“Thus, the more China is successful in the country, the more international it becomes important. I think we will see more and more swimmers occur at this high level.
Bohl worked with some of the best swimmers in Australia, such as Emma McKeon (photo)
He recently played a new role with Chinese Swimming Association as an advisor
“The potential of China to continue to improve and excel in swimming is enormous. There are so many more potential athletes.
The controversy comes after the Olympic swimming coach Michael Palfrey put himself in hot water in Paris for having supported a Korean swimmer.
Palfrey was invited to explain the Australian Olympic Committee after abandoning the comment of the bomb in an interview by the pool he made with South Korean television journalists on the eve of the Paris Games.
Palfrey, who is a coach for the Dolphins and also works with Korean champion Kim Woo -Min, said he wanted the growing talent to win gold at 400m free male on Saturday – a race that will showcase Australians Sam Short and Elijah Winnington.
