You’ve heard of greyhounds chasing fake rabbits around a racetrack. Wait until you see how Matt Temple has been training for the Olympics in Paris.
Now an Australian swimmer is chasing a plastic chicken down the pool in a bid to win his first individual Olympic medal.
Sian Barris, a biomechanics and skill acquisition specialist at the South Australian Sports Institute , came up with the left-field idea to help Temple.At racetracks across the country, greyhounds are trained to sprint around a track and chase a mechanical rabbit before crossing the finish line.“They attach a dog toy, which is a chicken, onto a string line and onto a drill,” Temple explained. “I’ll put the chicken at my feet, drop it down to the bottom, we both say go, and they start the drill.
“Unfortunately, I had to get rid of two roosters a few weeks ago. They were making too much noise in the morning,” Temple said. “I put them on Gumtree and some people collected them. There’s probably seven left and a duck. We’re down from about 11 or 12.” “It really rattled me and the rest of the squad in South Australia, and that made it very challenging for me in and out of the water,” Temple said.
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