{"id":7155,"date":"2015-11-03T19:03:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T19:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=7155"},"modified":"2015-11-03T19:03:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T19:03:04","slug":"cardiff-swimmers-gear-olympic-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2015\/11\/03\/cardiff-swimmers-gear-olympic-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff swimmers gear up for Olympic year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City of Cardiff Swimming Club is gearing up for Olympic year with its annual Welsh Capital Open meet this weekend.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7167\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7167\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/graham-wardell.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7167\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/graham-wardell-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"City of Cardiff Head Coach Graham Wardell\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7167\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/graham-wardell-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"City of Cardiff Head Coach Graham Wardell\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> City of Cardiff Head Coach Graham Wardell<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe event takes place at the Cardiff International Pool with swimmers from around Britain competing in the three-day event.<br \/>\nCardiff Olympian Ieuan Lloyd, 22, will race\u00a0in several events as he continues his preparation for the 2016 Olympics in Rio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Teammates Xavier Mohammed and Otto Putland, who both competed at the Commonwealth Games, will be racing too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m mostly using this competition for race practise and fitness,\u201d said Lloyd.<br \/>\n\u201cIf I perform well and swim good times that\u2019s a bonus. It\u2019s all about preparation for the Olympics.\u201d<br \/>\nCardiff coach Graham Wardell echoed Lloyd\u2019s views.<br \/>\n\u201cOur focus this year is on getting as many of our team to the Olympics\u00a0as possible,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThe Cardiff competition follows on from a successful weekend that saw 15 swimmers race at the Manchester International Meet.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m pleased with the effort from my team. It\u2019s encouraging signs so early in the season when they are in hard\u00a0training,\u201d said Graham Wardell.<br \/>\nThe race of the weekend came from Lloyd in a thrilling 200 Individual Medley where he out-touched Xavier Mohammed by 0.01.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City of Cardiff Swimming Club is gearing up for Olympic year with its annual Welsh Capital Open meet this weekend. The event takes place at the Cardiff International Pool with swimmers from around Britain competing in the three-day event. Cardiff Olympian Ieuan Lloyd, 22, will race\u00a0in several events as he continues his preparation for the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Teammates Xavier Mohammed and Otto Putland, who both competed at the Commonwealth Games, will be racing too. \u201cI\u2019m mostly using this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,4],"tags":[1291,131,378,3222,130],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardiff-bay","category-sport","tag-cardiff-2","tag-city-of-cardiff","tag-olympics","tag-rio","tag-swimming"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cardiff swimmers gearing up for Rio Olympics 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cardiff 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