"This is the spiritual home of swimming as far as we're concerned," he said of the open-air venue. Defending women's 100m freestyle champion Cate Campbell, who lives and trains in nearby Brisbane, added that she had witnessed how the Glasgow crowd had lifted the Scotland team four years ago. "I'm really hoping that we feel that same energy out there on pool deck in a couple of days." The wind, sun and expected rain will also affect the swimmers, with the light-skinned Peaty jokingly worrying about his complexion. The water temperature, however, has created some issues with Olympic 400m freestyle champion Mack Horton overheating during the Australian trials and the team looking to utilise ice baths for the distance swimmers.

Source: The Star April 03, 2018 06:11 UTC