Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorpe have high hopes this summer.
Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorpe are well aware they could make history for Team GB this summer – and hope to smash some stereotypes about artistic swimming in the process.
“We’re going for a medal and we’re taking each day as it comes. We’re doing everything we can in training and I think that’s the most important thing for us, just doing what we can, day in, day out, working hard on the grind and then this summer will take care of itself. “We don’t really have big arguments, big bumps along the way,” added Shortman. “We’ve just kind of seen it all from each other. We know each other in absolutely every condition, bad mood, good mood. We’ve lived our best and worst shared experiences together.”
Shortman, who reckons she can hold her breath for at least three minutes, has an immediate answer when asked about artistic swimming’s biggest misconceptions, replying: “That it’s easy. It is not easy, let me tell you!.
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