{"id":108159,"date":"2014-08-25T03:17:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T10:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=108159"},"modified":"2015-08-23T13:02:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T20:02:49","slug":"nic-fink-found-the-courage-to-race-for-200-breast-gold-at-pan-pacs-video-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/nic-fink-found-the-courage-to-race-for-200-breast-gold-at-pan-pacs-video-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Nic Fink Found the Courage To Race For 200 Breast Gold At Pan Pacs (Video Interview)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photo by Delly Carr<\/p>\n

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GOLD COAST, Australia, August 25. AFTER posting the fastest time in the prelims of the 200 breaststroke at the Pan Pacific championships, Nicolas Fink felt he had the confidence to challenge for the gold medal, which he did against Japan\u2019s Yasuhiro Koseki. In this video interview, he talked about his race strategy and his work on pushing the third 50 meters of the race in which he won the silver medal. He also talked about getting back to work at the University of Georgia for an even better performance next year at world championships.<\/p>\n