BRITAIN's only four-time Olympic swimmer Suki Brownsdon plunged in at the Heywood Leisure Centre to conduct an educational swim-clinic for local swimmers.

Members of Cinderford Swimming Club and swimmers from clubs in Gloucester, Newent, Tewkesbury and Dursley were put through their paces in the pool by the Commonwealth Games Gold Medalist.

They were also given a chat on Suki's swimming experiences.

Suki, who organises Adidas Swim Clinics all over the country, said: "The motivational energy which we believe we generate during these clinics starts to make the Olympic dream of Britain's grass root swimmers more real. You suddenly see belief in their eyes."

Suki said her aim was for Cinderford's hopeful young swimmers to realise that becoming an Olympian had taken a good deal of hard work in and out of the pool.

But she stressed: "At the same time I wanted all of them to meet me in person and realise that I was once a young up and coming swimmer too, and if I can achieve excellence, they can too."