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Commentary by Jeff Commings<\/i><\/p>\n

TUCSON \u2013 Swimming Australia and the Japan Swimming Federation made a landmark announcement last weekend, declaring that the two swimming superpowers will work together to make each nation better in the pool in the years leading up to the 2020 Olympics.<\/p>\n

This goes well beyond allowing swimmers to train for extended periods of time in each country. Japan and Australia want to have the best Olympic results possible in 2020, and will open the channels of communication between each other in a quest to do so. In the coming years, we could see Australia and Japan at joint training camps before major international competitions. The two countries will not keep any secrets from each other when it comes to sport science research, training philosophies and developing future athletes.<\/p>\n

From the Swimming Australia press release:<\/p>\n

The agreement will assist both countries in their mutual goal of achieving best ever results at the 2020 Games.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe enjoy a very positive and collaborative relationship with Japan Swimming both in and out of the pool and we look forward to deepening this further as this new partnership develops,\u201d Chief Executive Officer Mark Anderson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe this partnership will provide mutual benefit to both nations and will provide our Australian Swim Team exciting opportunities to further evolve and achieve our long-term performance goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

JASF President Daichi Suzuki thanked Swimming Australia for inviting his team to Perth and shared in the excitement of the partnership.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe both SAL and JASF are striving to mutually recognise and respect each other’s programs, and the agreement will help to further strengthen our relationships.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope that this partnership will help develop both our country’s programs. I sincerely hope that through this partnership, we can help nurture and develop many medallists for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.\u201d<\/i>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We live in a time when many of the world\u2019s best coaches freely share their training strategies with their peers. But this is the first time two federations are publicly announcing such an exchange, and it could spell danger for the rest of the world. Think of the future possibilities for Japan\u2019s distance freestyle program as it learns how Australia was able to foster such great talent as Grant Hackett, Mack Horton, Melissa Gorman and Kylie Palmer. And how will Australia\u2019s already-strong backstroke squad improve once they see how Japan\u2019s superstar backstrokers train?<\/p>\n

\u201cJapan is a leading swimming nation,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cThere is no doubt that they will reinforce this reputation when they host both the 2018 Pan Pacific Championships and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Japan is on the verge of something great much earlier than that. In 18 months in Rio de Janeiro, Japan could have its highest gold medal tally in decades. Not since the 1932 Olympics, where the men won all but one swimming event, has Japan had the potential to earn more than just a couple of swimming gold medals. Australia knows it, and appears to have taken the following mindset: If you can\u2019t beat \u2018em, join \u2018em.<\/p>\n

But Japan wins here as well. Every Olympic host nation wants to win lots of medals, and Japan is right to reach out to the Aussies for help. Australia was the last host nation to earn more than one gold medal in swimming, taking five golds in Sydney in 2000.<\/p>\n

On the surface, the United States needs not worry about this partnership. Team USA has led the medal table at every Olympics since 1984, and that will not change in 2020. Japan made a major breakthrough at the 2012 Olympics, winning 11 medals for the second-highest total. That was one of Australia\u2019s worst Olympic performances, though the nation appears to be on an upswing. If both of these countries are successful in teaming up to boost their medal numbers, we could see them second and third in the medal table. Will their total medals combined beat what the United States wins? That\u2019s never happened in the past eight Olympics. Will swimming at the Tokyo Olympics essentially turn into a dual meet, with Australia\/Japan taking on the might Americans? How will it affect the Pan Pacific championships?<\/p>\n

Though the partnership has the makings of a major game changer in swimming, it strikes me as an odd one. The announcement would not be as shocking if Australia had decided to team up with another Commonwealth nation, or if Japan partnered with an Asian nation. (Imagine if China and Japan put history aside and teamed up in the pool.) Japan has been sending athletes to Australia for many years, though Australia hadn\u2019t reciprocated by sending its top swimmers to Japan for extended training sessions. If the partnership is to succeed, the athletes have to buy into it as much as executives in the two federations.<\/p>\n

Twenty years ago, you would never find two rivals training together. But the times are changing, and we\u2019ll see if Australian and Japanese athletes will thrive as they spend time together in the weeks and months before a big meet. What happens when an Australian or a Japanese swimmer wins gold at the world championships, Olympics or Pan Pacs? Will the other country take the credit as well?<\/p>\n

If we see even a small kernel of success with this collaboration, I wonder how the other swimming nations will respond. I doubt USA Swimming will team up with any other country, and that\u2019s not a knock against USA Swimming. Perhaps several European nations will form an alliance, as long as it doesn\u2019t produce an Iron Curtain-like presence that shielded a doping regime in East Germany for 20 years.<\/p>\n

Could we see results as early as this summer\u2019s world championships? Maybe not in the pool, but don\u2019t be shocked to see Australian and Japanese coaches huddled together on the deck.<\/p>\n

Click here to read the full press release from Swimming Australia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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