Australia’s Jessicah Schipper splits with longtime swim coach

Jessicah Schipper and her longtime coach Ken Wood have parted ways after the Beijing Olympics. It has been reported that Wood sold a training program to the swimmer who ended up beating Schipper at the Olympics in the 200m butterfly.

Liu Zige had been on the receiving end of Wood’s assistance and she not only won gold at the Olympics she also took the world record. Schipper faded in the final and came in third.

The split was probably due to come with or without the help Wood gave to the Chinese as they have been together for more than a decade and Wood is 78.

Schipper still was able to come away from Beijing with one gold medal after she was part of the Australian 4x100m medley relay team.

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