{"id":280865,"date":"2017-10-20T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=280865"},"modified":"2017-10-20T08:27:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T15:27:36","slug":"off-deck-tom-shields-talks-lessons-learned-from-disappointing-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/off-deck-tom-shields-talks-lessons-learned-from-disappointing-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Off Deck: Tom Shields Talks Lessons Learned from Disappointing Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The summer of 2017 was a rough one for\u00a0<strong>Tom Shields<\/strong>, who failed to make the U.S. World Championship team. 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Shields pointed out how he might not have been in the right place mentally and might not have been in the best condition physically to excel this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Since Nationals, Shields had raced numerous times on the World Cup circuit, and he explained what he thinks he can take away from that sort of frequent high-level racing. He also added why short course continues to be of great importance for him, and he explained why it meant so much to him to be the first man to break 44 seconds in the 100-yard fly.<\/p>\n<p>Shields also weighed in on one of the hot-button issues in sports currently, taking a knee during the national\u00a0anthem. 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