How do the athletes in the southern hemisphere train for the Olympics?
In most events like swimming, gymnastics, volleyball, basketball, etc I wouldn’t think southern hemisphere countries like Australia would train any differently since it’s inside, but how do they train for sailing, rowing, and other outdoor summer olympic sports in the winter, and skiing and snowboarding during their summer?
They’d be months off of the summer games during their summer and months off the winter games during their winter. They’d have a couple months at least of no training whatsoever, then.
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Perhaps they travel and train elsewhere in the world.
As you mentioned, many of the events are indoors, anyway. Rowers may train on machines, but more likely they relocate for their training.
wow, ok there, well they would train the summer sport during their summer(our winter) and the winter sports during their winter.
They simply go to Northern European for training
head to countries where the conditions are much the same as what the conditions are going to be like in china. a lot of australian olympians have been training in asian and european countries to adjust to the conditions (the australian swim team had a couple of week training camp in Malaysia prior to the games - just one example of this)
Some Aussie athletes go to Europe for instance during their winter. Or because its such a big country some go to say north Queensland because of the warmer weather
They train like everyone else. Just remember the Olympics were in Australia in 2000. They were only a month later then the Olympics this year.
Well I’m Australian and this is from firsthand experience, I was ranked high enough but I narrowly missed out on qualifying for the Australian national Athens gymnastic olympic team at the National meet due to an injury(I would probably of made it if I hadn’t had the horrible Achilles injury too) when I was 16, I retired shortly after. So I knkow how elite althetes train, and I’ve met most of the Australian team at one instance or another.
I trained 5 hours a day at the AIS(Australian national institute of sport, it’s where lots of Australian athletes go to train/live) and home schooled after that.
For sailing, rowing and most outdoor summer sports, they just train outside, it’s freezing cold at 5:30 in the morning, but they do it anyway because they’re that serious, they also have simulators, rowing machines that can be used to practice on.
For winter sports in summer, once again if the athlete is serious (an elite athlete) they’ll train at a centre that has simulators for skiing and snowboarding, but most of the winter athletes I know/knew just went overseeas during the summer to train, there’s no rule stating that Australian athletes have to remain in the southern hemisphere.
They certianly don’t have months off just because of the season.
take a look at this i copied and pasted for ya,
July in Australia is one of the best months for skiing and other snow activities.
You can ski in New South Wales in the Snowy Mountains, Victoria in the state’s Alpine regions, and Tasmania in some of its high-altitude national parks.
The Australian ski season traditionally starts on the Queen’s Birthday holiday weekend in June and ends on the Labor Day weekend in October. Ski resort operations may start earlier or later than these dates depending on snow conditions.