The Australian Artistic Swimming team is preparing for every scenario leading up to the Tokyo Olympics.
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Preparation was a valuable lesson learned by head coach Lolli Montico during the 2016 Rio Olympics, when during the final days of the Games, the pool water turned green.
"That taught me to plan for every little thing that could happen," Montico said.
"We try to plan practices with the mask on all the time, not in the water but on land. Hopefully, we will cover all the little things that could happen."
The squad has been training at the AIS, but recently travelled to Perth and Brisbane to try and replicate competitive scenarios which have been lacking throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We've been trying to simulate how it feels when you compete," the squad's youngest member Kiera Gazzard said.
"To get that adrenaline and understand how you compete under pressure, it's never going to be the same, but you can only try your best to simulate that."
The training leading up to the games for Australia's artistic swimming team has been rigorous. Soon to be two-time Olympian Emily Rogers said it felt as if they were "turning into fish".
"Our days consist of 8 to 9 am land training, then we are in the pool from 9-1," Rogers said.
"Then we have about a two-hour break in the afternoon, and we are back in the water from three to seven. So about seven to eight hours a day in the water."
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The squad has also seen its fair share of changes since the Tokyo Olympics' postponement last year. Duet Artistic Swimming Olympian Amber Rose Stockpole retired from the sport after the Games were put on hold until 2021.
That meant Rogers took over as Amie Thompson's Duet partner, with Gazzard now the reserve.
While the Australian Artistic swimming team qualified for the Olympics in 2019, the duet team qualification came later via a virtual competition.
Athletes were required to do their routine as per normal, which was filmed at the AIS then sent off to international judges, with results coming in about a month later.
"It was a little strange, just having a video camera to record you," Rogers said.
"But we had a few athletes on training camp here and AIS staff, so we had a bit of an audience, which was great.
"That was good to get that nervous energy and simulate that competition because it feels different from just training every day."
Head Coach Montico said this would be a different artistic swimming team than previously, suggesting he had a more intense squad than in years past.
"What I'm expecting from the Tokyo Games, with Australia, that these girls will show a different style of swimming," said Montico.
"I'm pushing the girls to swim faster and be more aggressive to show a little bit of a different swimming style."
Artistic swimming received a rebrand in 2017 when FINA changed its name from synchronised swimming, a decision widely accepted by competitors. The Australian team heads to Japan at the end of June.