![\"\"](\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/IMG_0035-preview_30382-scaled.png\")
<\/p>\n
“The people who are over there are absolutely magnificent to work with and they’re really friendly,” he said.<\/p>\n
“If you go internationally, such as Canada, the rules for swimming are the same, but how they do it’s different.<\/p>\n
“You’ve got to be flexible enough to see that what we do in Australia is not the only way and to be able to work within the confines of what other countries do.”<\/p>\n
These differences are typically centred around the protocols preferred by each region, from where officials stand to where they look during competitions.<\/p>\n
“It gives you more experience to know that\u2026maybe we can change things to improve what we do here, and possibly there,” Tindale said.<\/p>\n
When he’s not travelling across the globe officiating at swim meets or coaching the masters swimming group at the North Bellarine Aquatic Centre, Tindale is helping train technical officials. He’s hoping to boost the number of qualified personnel in Geelong, and is encouraging locals to give it a go.<\/p>\n
“For swimmers who have finished their swimming career or parents [of swimmers], it’s just a great thing to get involved with,” he said. “It opens a lot of doors.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
GEELONG Swimming Club committee member Peter Tindale had a front-row seat to sporting history last month while helping officiate the Canadian Swim Trials. Tindale, who has been a qualified technical official for the past 25 years, was poolside when 18-year-old Canadian swimming prodigy Summer McIntosh smashed four-time Australian Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus’s 400m freestyle world […]<\/p>\n