Summary
MANY in British swimming were glad to see the back of Big Bad Bill Sweetenham, but Olympic guru Sir Clive Woodward was not among them. While devising his athlete development scheme in his role as British Olympic Association director of elite performance, Woodward says he found Sweetenham (right) to be one of the performance directors most receptive to his vision.
In Woodward's world, the ultimate accolade is to be a 'sponge', someone with an unquenchable thirst for new ideas, as opposed to a 'rock', the sort of person who listens to his plans 'with arms folded and then says: "That's not how we do things."' Woodward said: 'I thought Bill was fantastic.See the full content of this document
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Why Clive Took to Big Bad Bill ; On the Line
I got on very, very well with him. He was definitely a sponge. He showed me everything he was doing, how he w...
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