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Australia’s favourite swimming sisters, Cate<\/strong> and Bronte Campbell<\/strong> have confirmed today they will leave Sydney and return home to make Brisbane their training base to prepare for the Tokyo Olympic Trials after two successful years training in the Harbour City.<\/p>\n

Swimming World<\/em> can reveal exclusively that the golden girls of the Australian Dolphins Swim Team will be joined by their Sydney-based training partner, Paralympic golden girl Ellie Cole<\/strong> with the trio all electing to follow coach Simon Cusack<\/strong> back to Queensland.<\/p>\n

NSWIS and Swimming NSW have supported the faces of Swimming Australia since their move with Cusack to Sydney in 2018 \u2013 swimming out of Pymble Ladies College (PLC) on Sydney\u2019s North Shore.<\/p>\n

\"Cate

HOME COMING: Bronte, left, and Cate Campbell will prepapre for Tokyo in Brisbane. Photo Courtesy of Swimming Australia<\/p><\/div>\n

Cusack has coached the Campbell girls since they first began swimming competitvely at Indooroopilly turning them into swimming\u2019s \u201cSisters Of Speed\u201d – world champions and Olympic and Commonwealth Gamers gold medallists.<\/p>\n

It was Cusack who requested the move back to his home State of Queensland and the move has been fully supported as a National alliance.<\/p>\n

Together with NSWIS, New South Wales Swimming, Swimming Australia and the Queensland Academy of Sport, it was agreed to support Cusack\u2019s transfer of the NSWIS elite group and as members of the NSW Championship winning club the from the \u201cKnox-Pymble Swim Team\u201d on Sydney\u2019s North Shore to the Brisbane Aquatic Centre at Chandler.<\/p>\n

They will aim to re-ignite the program back in Brisbane on Monday, January 25\u2013although a complete re-union may well be COVID-19 delayed \u2013 with Greater Sydney now a COVID hotspot after the outbreak reached 83 in the Avalon cluster on the Sydney Northern Beaches \u2013 a population of 250,000 now under threat of a continued lockdown through Christmas.<\/p>\n

\"Cate

SYDNEY SUCCESS: Cate Campbell all smiles in Sydney where she has called the Harbour City home for the last two years. Photo Courtesy: Swimming NSW.<\/p><\/div>\n

Cate Campbell, 28, and preparing for a fourth Olympics, has already arrived back into Queensland, pre quarantine restrictions after delivering a swim clinic in Glen Innes in north western NSW on Saturday but Bronte and Ellie are both holed up in Sydney \u2013 unsure of their immediate plans for a border crossing from NSW into Queensland.<\/p>\n

Twenty-six-year-old Bronte, with her sights set on a third Games in Tokyo<\/a>, had also planned to be in Brisbane with her sister for Christmas but will now have to remain in Sydney in Bondi, but the 25-year-old is staying positive that she will do everything she can to be in Brisbane to start her Olympic campaign next month.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe plan is to adjust and re-adjust. It\u2019s a timely reminder to be in a place where it is stable because who knows whether they will keep things open down here (in Sydney),\u201d said Campbell.<\/p>\n

\u201c If it gets worse (in Sydney) who knows where this will end. It could end up where Christmas is locked down across the city\u2026not the best but we just keep on adjusting. There will be a way (to get to Queensland) whether it\u2019s quarantine or rural staying (training in a regional centre like Alstonville or Ballina in northern NSW, close to the Queensland border) that will get me north of the border in time to start training next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

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WAVING GOODBYE TO SYDNEY: Ellie Cole will join the Campbell sisters in Brisbane Photo Courtesy: Swimming Australia.<\/p><\/div>\n

A six-time Paralympic gold medallist, Cole, was set to spend Christmas in (COVID-free) Melbourne with her parents but has had to quash those plans, after Victoria closed its borders to NSW.<\/p>\n

Cole will likely spend Christmas on the NSW Central Coast before also putting similar travel plans in place to be in Queensland to prepare for a tilt at a fourth Paralympics.<\/p>\n

In a statement released today The NSW Institute of Sport (NSWIS) said they had been working with key swimming stakeholders to ensure their athletes are best placed to compete at the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing a challenging 2020 with border restrictions being in place, NSWIS, along with our program partners, have supported the relocation of head coach Simon Cusack <\/strong><\/a>and his cohort of athletes including Cate and Bronte Campbell, and Ellie Cole to Queensland to ensure their final Olympic and Paralympic preparations will be unaffected should further border closures occur,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n

\u201cSimon will remain a Swimming NSW coach, whilst his swimmers will continue to be NSWIS scholarship athletes and be part of Team NSWIS. The squad have our full support as they continue their preparations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Simkon

COACH OF THE YEAR: Former ASCTA coach of the year Simon Cusack with prescient Tony Shaw, now a Board Director for Swimming Australlia. Photo Courtesy: Stephen Holland Photography (ASCTA).<\/p><\/div>\n

Cusack was thankful for the cohesive approach from all parties with the COVID-19 pandemic at the heart of a move to ensure a smoother Olympic Trials preparation.<\/p>\n

And he has already arrived into Brisbane with his family, saying: \u201cDue to Covid they decided that they would re-position my squad back up to Chandler Aquatic Centre for the remainder of the Olympic preparation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the effects of COVID in the middle of the year that didn\u2019t do anyone any good and being away from family wasn\u2019t good either.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess with what has happened in Sydney and in particularly how things have changed so dramatically over the last 48 hours the timing could not be better.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe girls will work on a program I\u2019ve given them with some work to do up until Christmas Eve and they were will (hopefully) return (to training themselves) on January 4, before our official start on January 25.<\/p>\n

\u201cCate will be up in Queensland and will do a week with Vince Raleigh (at Chandler) and Bronte will now stay in Sydney.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce we start in Brisbane, we will operate out of Chandler and also use the QAS facility (the 25m pool) as well as using the QAS gym which will be a huge plus.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was so encouraging to see Swimming NSW and NSWIS, on the back of the last two years wanting to let the program go and they wanted to see the full preparation through which was really supportive on their behalf. That support was great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cusack said his girls were all able to finish off 2020 at the NSW Championships last week and they were happy to get some solid racing off finishing over with off with the 10x50m club relay wins for Knox boys and Pymble girls.<\/p>\n

The former ASCTA coach of the Year said \u201cEveryone is looking forward to kick-starting 2021 and it\u2019s a monkey off our back knowing we\u2019re not going to be disrupted if the Queensland border closes again.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve the National Event Camp up here in February and the National Club Championships on the Gold Coast in April \u2013 there was a lot of stuff we would have had to miss out on if the borders did close again. But now (hopefully) it\u2019s all looking good\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Bronte

GAMES GOLD: Bronte Campbell celebrates her Commonwealth Games gold in 2018. \u00a0Says:\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a credit to both the NSWIS and Queensland Academy of Sport and Swimming Australia \u2013 everyone has been great.” Photo Courtesy: Delly Carr (Swimming g Australia)<\/p><\/div>\n

And speaking on the move from Sydney to Brisbane, Bronte Campbell described it as a \u201csix month training camp.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a credit to both the NSWIS and Queensland Academy of Sport and Swimming Australia \u2013 everyone has been great,\u201d said Campbell.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t been stressed about it because everything has just been taken care of for me, everyone doing their bit working together.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure this could happen in any other year; all the sporting communities and swimming especially has made us a bit tighter and placed us all on the same side.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve all got something to work towards now I feel like the Olympic are about to happen again it\u2019s all gearing up\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

But bred in Queensland, Campbell admitted after two years that: \u201cSydney feels like my home. As much as I\u2019m a Queenslander around State of Origin (rugby league football) time I love Sydney, I love the people down here and NSWIS has been amazing for us.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had a really, really good two years and I\u2019m pretty settled down here \u2026but its an Olympic Games year so whatever it takes to make it work.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we are pretty used to living on the fly, I\u2019m not thinking about it as moving to Brisbane, for me it\u2019s like going on an extended training camp and I\u2019ll be back to Sydney once the Games are done.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy boyfriend lives down here, my friends are down here, and it\u2019s very much like my life is down in Sydney.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we can put things on hold until after the Olympics; we are used to organising our lives around that and we\u2019ll just make it work.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is always a way to make it work; but it\u2019s good to have something so we can hone in on the Olympics a little bit more and get out of the distractions of Sydney.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s always a positive way to look at things; it\u2019s good to have a training venue locked in and it\u2019s good to know we are going to be able to train through to the Olympics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s really what it\u2019s all about; that\u2019s what we\u2019ve been aiming for over the last 18 months, to make these Games happen and make it a good Games for us and our squad.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the last step in that you can pretty much do anything for six months\u2026 it is the Olympics after all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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