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The format originally came about under the leadership of former head coach <strong>Don Talbot<\/strong> in an effort to better prepare the national team for competing in the international format. However, the organization has recently elected to reduce the meet from eight days to five, cutting out all semi-final heats.<\/p>\n<p>National Coach\u00a0<strong>Jacco Verhaeren<\/strong> explained to\u00a0<em>The Australian<\/em>, &#8220;we don&#8217;t have the depth to have making semi-finals a real challenge for the top athletes, so we want to put more pressure on the heats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Under the new format swimmers will need to set a top eight time in preliminaries in order to move on to the finals. The top two athletes during finals will then secure a spot on the national team for next summer&#8217;s World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>Australia, having not performed quite up to expectations at the Rio Olympics, reportedly made the decision to shorten the national team trials before the Games began. Despite calls for Australia to adopt the United States&#8217; system of a later trials, Verhaeren stands firm that it was not the timing of last spring&#8217;s Australian trials that affected Team Australia&#8217;s performances in Rio.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, Verhaeren has expressed concern that the focus on producing strong performances at a major championship every year has led to swimmers feeling fatigued at the conclusion of the four-year cycle. Instead, Verhaeren would rather put the emphasis on the four-year cycle and better preparing athletes for each upcoming Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more from The Australian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/sport\/swimming-australia-reduces-national-trials-to-five-days\/news-story\/d2cfb8b3c0dd53775f44b6851ebb69dc\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swimming Australia has announced a change in the format of their national team trials, beginning next year. 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