Colbert\u2019s \u201cfull circle\u201d summer<\/p>\n
At this week\u2019s Aquatics GB Swimming Championships, Colbert is actually swimming in four events.<\/p>\n
She finished third in the 100m freestyle on Tuesday (14 April), and will go in her favoured 200m freestyle on Thursday, the 400m freestyle on Friday, then the 200m medley on Saturday.<\/p>\n
This meet acts as trials for the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games and the European Aquatics Championships Paris 2026, where she is hoping to have a big impact.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy first summer as a senior athlete was 2022, when I suddenly made the Commonwealth Games and European Championships and got on the podium,\u201d recalls Colbert.<\/p>\n
\u201cComing back around four years later, I feel like I’m a very different athlete. I’ve grown a lot as an athlete and a person.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going in like, \u2018I want to top this podium\u2019. It’s quite a different mindset to what I had my first time around. It\u2019s a full circle moment to remind myself how much I’ve grown.\u201d<\/p>\n
Colbert, though, will not have it all her own way this summer, particularly in Glasgow, where she will face Australian superstar O\u2019Callaghan among others.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome events can be weaker at the Commonwealth Games, but I don\u2019t get a break,\u201d says Colbert.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut hopefully it’ll just give me more practice in a really high-level final, so when I get to the Olympics, I’ve got more experience against Mollie and these top girls.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colbert\u2019s \u201cfull circle\u201d summer At this week\u2019s Aquatics GB Swimming Championships, Colbert is actually swimming in four events.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-393203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}