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Twenty years after winning silver in the pool at Manchester 2002, Mel Marshall<\/strong> is head coach to a 48-strong Team England<\/strong> squad – her charge Adam Peaty<\/strong> among them – at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.<\/p>\n

A pioneer on poolside, Marshall is that rare thing – a woman who has guided a man to every title available to him and beyond – soaring success that has been recognised with Marshall being asked to read the oath at the Opening Ceremony on 28 July.<\/p>\n

The swimming programme runs from 29 July-3 August with Peaty seeking his third straight 100m breaststroke title and first over 50 following silvers behind Cameron van der Burgh<\/strong> in 2014 and 2018.<\/p>\n

However, the three-time Olympic champion’s participation was in doubt after he fractured his foot while training<\/a> in Tenerife.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old was doing a side lunge with a band when he over-rotated his foot, landed on the side and snapped his fifth metatarsal.<\/p>\n

“You heard it snap,” Marshall – lead coach at the British Swimming performance centre in Loughborough – told Swimming World. “It was one of those freak things.”<\/p>\n

Peaty tried to walk it off initially but soon realised damage had been done, something scans and an MRI confirmed.<\/p>\n

Marshall said:<\/p>\n

“People have probably forgotten he had five months off and when you\u2019ve got five months off if you\u2019re trying to make it back for a World Championships in June you are up against the block in terms of making the weeks count.<\/p>\n

“And we’d got him to a decent place by April and then we\u2019d gone to Tenerife and I just knew we\u2019d turned the corner, where he was in that space – right, we\u2019re in that territory again, doing that back-end pace, the front-end speed coming together, you’re technically looking good, your body mass is at the right place \u2013 I thought perfect, we\u2019re going to be fine.<\/p>\n

“I thought we’ve got one week left here to really push on and then obviously we had the issue with the foot.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s sport, this stuff happens \u2013 you win, you lose, you get injured.<\/p>\n

“I think it was the mammoth effort we\u2019d put in in a short space of time, emotionally and physically, to get ready for the June worlds. To have that opportunity taken away \u2013 that really felt like a bit of a kick in the stomach.<\/p>\n

“We had our tears and had a little bit of a sit by the ocean and just tried to move on from it really.<\/p>\n

“It was difficult, it was challenging but you have got choices in life haven\u2019t you? You can either be beaten by it or you can try and do the best around a difficult situation which is what we tried.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Mel Marshall & Adam Peaty walking on fire: Photo Courtesy:<\/p><\/div>\n

Apart from breaking a finger before national age groups many years ago, Peaty has never had to contend with a major injury.<\/p>\n

Team Peaty pulled together making sure he was getting conditioning in areas he couldn’t swim on, a bespoke cast was made with his 100 world record of 56.88 engraved on the back and Kate Jordan, chief medical officer of British Swimming, ensured a foot specialist was on hand.<\/p>\n

It was a mammoth team effort.<\/p>\n

“Everyone stepped in and did the extra shift,” said Marshall. “We had to manufacture a training programme that simulated what he normally does but without the ability to do what he does.<\/p>\n

“Rob Norman, the strength and conditioning coach, our physiologist Ben, our analyst Emma and physio Ange, everybody was just fabulous really.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In just seven weeks they managed to get Peaty to a place where he could be competitive with the European Championships following on from 11 August in Rome.<\/p>\n

Given his lack of preparation and racing this season, Marshall is cautious.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve just got to be realistic;<\/p>\n

“We are committed to trying our best in terms of Commonwealths and building through that. He has only raced twice this year; normally he would have had seven long-course meets.<\/p>\n

“We are going to use the home crowd, use Birmingham, it\u2019s an opportunity isn\u2019t it? He didn\u2019t think he would be here in terms of a return to fitness and he has just got to use the meets to just try and get the best out of himself that he can.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Manchester, 90 Mel And A Diverse Coaching Team<\/h3>\n
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Adam Peaty, Mel Marshall and Luke Greenbank: Photo Courtesy: Mel Marshall<\/p><\/div>\n

Marshall was part of the England 4×100 freestyle quartet that won silver 20 years ago in Manchester, four years before she went on to claim six medals at the 2006 Commonwealths in Melbourne, Australia.<\/p>\n

She recalled the well-meaning support of friends……..<\/p>\n

“Twenty years \u2013 don\u2019t tell me that! I remember almost the intimate crowd nature of it because Manchester had a low roof, they put stands in.<\/p>\n

“I remember my mate, she basically put \u2018Go Mel\u2019 on the wrong way round on a banner so it looked like ’90 Mel’.<\/p>\n

“I remember them two with some dodgy paint on a terrible bedsheet because I was a student at the time. Them just hanging out with that terrible sign \u2013 it\u2019s all the stories like that.<\/p>\n

“And it\u2019s a family occasion isn\u2019t it? And the city buzzes.<\/p>\n

“Like with London I remember being there and working for BBC news and the whole city was buzzing and I just think that off the back of what we have all been through, to get people behind sport and the areas buzzing around it, is excellent.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now Marshall spearheads a contingent of female coaches with\u00a0Lisa Bates, Jacquie Marshall<\/strong> and Lauren Jocelyn on the Team England pool deck joining Dave McNulty, Dave Hemmings, Jamie Main, Ian Hulme<\/strong> and Euan Dale<\/strong> – the magic eight as she calls them.<\/p>\n

She said:<\/p>\n

“From a swimming perspective, that’ll be the most diverse and representative team that have ever been sent to a major Games \u2013 it represents sexuality, represents gender, represents race, everything and I am really proud to have those people.<\/p>\n

“Because they\u2019re great but also one of the main goals of the Commonwealth Games is diversity and I think we’ve really achieved that with the skillset that we have got in that group and their stories for sure.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reading The Oath And Female Representation<\/h3>\n

Marshall will join the likes of Duran Duran at the Opening Ceremony to read the oath, a commitment to Commonwealth values.<\/p>\n

“Me and 80,000 people \u2013 like an Elton John concert.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a week when England’s women’s football team have reached the final of the European Championships, Marshall once more took pride in raising women’s profile in and beyond sport.<\/p>\n

“I couldn\u2019t believe it when I got the call. Just really pleased: again I just think from a sporting perspective \u2013 it\u2019s not about my ego at all but if it\u2019s me that represents that we have got great women out and about, I think that\u2019s really positive.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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