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Cayman Islands
Olympic Team, Beijing 2008
After years of hard work in training and competition,
four athletes from the Cayman Islands competed at the Beijing 2008
Olympic Games in Track & Field and Swimming.
Brett Fraser, 18, swimmer
Brett trains at University of Florida (UF), in Gainesville. He is a freshman
majoring in Finance.
This was Brett’s first Olympics. As another competitive swimmer and looking
so much like his older brother, it is difficult not to think that Brett is following
in Shaune’s footsteps. The brothers recently moved into the same apartment
and encourage one another to get to bed at a decent hour so they can get up at
5:30 am to be at the pool for 6:00 am.
“My training schedule is very intense,” said Brett. “But my
coaches are great at motivating me and I am confident I can make it to the semi-finals
and that is what I am aiming towards.”
Like his older brother, Brett had an intense training schedule that included
swimming up to two and a half hours a day combined with weight training. He also
attended the training camp in the Philippines to prepare for the Beijing Games.
Although there are many similarities between the brothers, both Brett and Shaune
deny there is any competition between them as they swim in different events.
In fact, seeing what Shaune went through at the Athens Games helped Brett to
understand how to stay focussed for Beijing.
He competed in the 200m backstroke and swam a personal best time, setting a new
national record in a time of 2:01.17 seconds.
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