Darren Smith (cyclist)

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Hi! I'm sitting here with Darren Smith the... famous famous Australian coach.. produced silver medal... and... fourth place in this year's two thousand twelve olympic games and a great honor for me to be with him here and ask him some questions so i think the first thing i wanna say head down is congratulations with that stupendous performances that go a lot deeper than just those two incredible performances at the games has so much more.. just tell us a little bit about the build up to this games and your experiences and, and how you said about your business thanks very much Bobby, it's nice to be here with you. Uhm... look, we had.. we set goals as coaches uh... Number of years out from games and one of the goals for me was to have a certain number of athletes in the games. But not only that just to prepare them the best i can so that they are all in lifetime best shape and i think uhm... what happens on the day is up to them and we can't control that so.. my particular goal was six in the olympics um... and have the vast majority of them uh... contenders,which we did. And also in lifetime best shape and and i was very pleased in the uh... in the two months leading up to the olympics we had five of our girls all come within the top five of the world's Triathlon series race, which means they contenders. And it's interesting time uh... we try and sit uh... we know that the olympics is kinda like a as a bit of a circus really it's a mixed thing, it's once every four years and federations and olympic committees get involved so it is becomes messy we put a.. very strong ah.. strong efforts in uh... organizing athletes to have uh... good repetitions, good routines that they knew worked and you don't do that in the last six weeks.. you do that in ahh.. previous three or four years uh... but it pays dividends in the last six weeks. So there were the goals for me.. Were you looking for talent or how's your squad for the next uh.. quadranium.. uh.. it's always great to have a.. time to drop by and see all the coaches and also to ah.. just see the enthusiasm of all the athletes and the parent's and so forth.. I'm not really looking for myself you know and we have a full squad, some mixed.. i have a few Australians already. And, and i'm not really unfold effectively but uh... you know it's just nice i was driving not far away uh... and so i knew it was on so if it right along, I'm gonna drop to and say hello to everyone.. it'd been pretty much a year since i'd seen a lot of the.. the development coaches in Australia.. and you know? it's nice to see where people get to.. and you know who's in which final and so forth.. and you know uh?... Australia got some, some real depth coming through in the junior ranks and so i'm pleased to see that. I certainly do.. so in closing down just because of who i am and then my involvement with the running give.. give people out there a sense of that what it takes to run on that level with these girls are are running as far as stop the bike for 10k has.. they would be competitive as road runners on their own rate, on their own right.. well.. i guess i guess we're looking at women who have the capacity to run sub thirty four off the bike.. really appointee and even much you know quite a bit faster than that i tend the look around, i only inherit athletes that are decent and a little bit older so i don't really stop sixteen-year olds and so i'm looking for the missing links for most people they're reasonably well conditions technically a bit ugly.. and so uh... i i figured, i direct my energies in the direction that uh... brings the biggest games in the end i don't load them up with the lots of work until i know that their system their.. uh... their rehab system um... their mechanics is going to support the work automatically the work makes them better but uh... we don't go this so i might fix this swim or fix something else while working on the mechanics of the run and then.. when it's appropriate we start loading 'em more and more uhm... it's still a compromise sport uhm... there's definitely some things.. of all of the top contenders that i see are compromises and.. another four years of development work, we would improve another stage so that's, that's how i see it even with the 2 out of top 4 from my squad uh... we still.. you know we weren't.. we weren't finished. no we weren't finished.. with there's still more.. there's still more and um... maybe 30, 40 seconds more from what' they've from what they've running in the past years and uh... in four years you can do a certain amount of work but i realized that it's not six or eight which is probably needs to be so you're looking at girls that are getting very close to thirty two minutes off the bike yes certainly when i've been looking at the new squads um... i'm looking for those people who have uh... absolute room for improvement and who are coachable now that i've got plenty of runs in the board. it's not too hot to find a decent number of people to put their hand up.. but they've got to work within our group.. they've got to be coachable... and some things are easier to do than others there's certain motor skills you might want to upgrade to change something.. but you might not have the under underlying motor skills to to make those changes so you know it's not just "i will do what you say boss" it's uh... you have to develop the gross motor skills as well as some of them and are not athletes.. traditional athletes, you know like some of us oldies... probably still have some of the control aspects because we've played softer, we played in the forests and so forth, that the kids these days don't have some might have to improve as aspects before actually improved them as runners.. Oh fantastic! well thank you so much darren. its an honor and a privilege and its good to see you again and let's enjoy these girls final in the races.. and see the next generation coming through.. thank you..