{"id":420574,"date":"2024-09-05T21:55:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T21:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=420574"},"modified":"2024-09-06T01:09:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T01:09:12","slug":"un-australian-coach-sacked-by-swimming-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=420574","title":{"rendered":"'Un-Australian' coach sacked by Swimming Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swimming Australia has sacked Olympic Games<\/a> coach Michael Palfrey for the "un-Australian" comments in Paris<\/a> that made headlines around the world.<\/p>\n

Palfrey told South Korean media that he hoped Kim Woo-min – who he was also working with – would beat Australia's Elijah Winnington and Sam Short in the 400m freestyle.<\/p>\n

The Australian Olympic Committee allowed \ufeffPalfrey to continue coaching in Paris after consultation with athletes but SA has confirmed that the relationship is now over.<\/p>\n

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\"Australian<\/p>\n

"Swimming Australia has terminated Michael Palfrey's employment due to a breach of his employment agreement," the governing body said on Friday.<\/p>\n

"Palfrey was found to have breached his employment contract by bringing himself into disrepute and causing serious damage to his and Swimming Australia's reputation, and adversely affecting Swimming Australia's interests.<\/p>\n

"CEO Rob Woodhouse confirmed Palfrey's employment has ended effective immediately and the process to find a successor for Palfrey at USC Spartans has begun.<\/p>\n

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\"Winnington<\/p>\n

"Palfrey retains his coach accreditation status. Swimming Australia will be making no further comment."<\/p>\n

During the Olympics, Dolphins coach Rohan Taylor recommended that Palfrey stay on.<\/a><\/p>\n

"I support Rohan Taylor and his team and the decision they have taken in the interests of the swimming team. It is a decision based on high performance and wellbeing," Australia's chef de mission Anna Meares said in July.<\/p>\n

\"Swim<\/p>\n

That determination was made less than 12 hours after Taylor had described Palfrey's TV interview as "un-Australian" and Meares had labelled it "a serious error in judgement."<\/a><\/p>\n

"For a coach on our team to promote another athlete ahead of our athletes is not acceptable and I've spoken to Michael about that," Taylor said.<\/p>\n

"My priority right now is the performance of the team and the performance of the athletes.<\/p>\n

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"And I'm going to meet with the athletes he coaches, he has three athletes on the team plus another athlete he's looking after.<\/p>\n

"And I need to make a judgement call on that, so I'm meeting with them after this press conference, they had training this morning, I didn't want to disrupt them.<\/p>\n

"I'll sit down with them and see how they're feeling and we've got a delicate balance of performance and requirements on the team, so we'll look at that."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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