My passions are:
Cycling (off road trails in particular)
Swimming
Rowing/ Sculling

Chris is inspired by the long term investment in sports facilities in New Zealand which for 4 million people, boasts 15 Olympic length swimming pools. London with 8 million people has proportionately far fewer! (Crystal Palace – 1948, Stratford – due to be built by 2012, and lidos).

Chris wants to see more long term thinking in the UK: to build more 50 metre pools (only about 20% more expensive to build than 25 metre pools), and to encourage much greater use of them by schools and Universities. He believes this will address the growing obesity of both young and old, and contribute to the UK getting more Olympic medals in future!