TWF CHRISTMAS EP - TOM DEAN IS BACK & THE BIG 2025 QUIZ
The Weekly Freestyle · Alex Sutton and contributors from the swimming world and beyond
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Show Notes
🎄✨ The Weekly Freestyle – Christmas Special 2025 ✨🎄
Santa’s come early to The Weekly Freestyle 🎅🎙️ as Alex Sutton dons the Christmas hat and welcomes Luke Withers and a jet lagged Tom Dean back from Australia for a proper festive freestyle!
There are Christmas crackers (pulled correctly), questionable jokes, riddles that may or may not make sense, and gifts straight from around the world including a European Union sweatshirt and golf balls from Royal Sydney ⛳🎁. Drinks are poured, electrolytes are debated, and the festive vibes are flowing.
Tom breaks down a whirlwind travel schedule from Europe to Brisbane, chats racing medleys, new events, PBs, and even opens up about a controversial DQ (yes, that IM turn…). The team also dish out brilliant advice for masters swimmers juggling training with mince pies and mulled wine 🏊♂️🍷.
Looking ahead, the 2026 swimming calendar gets a festive preview, before things descend into chaos with Christmas unpopular opinions (when should you eat Christmas dinner?!) and a fiercely contested 2025 Christmas Quiz complete with buzzers, swimming trivia, and a dramatic tiebreaker.
To top it all off, Alex delivers a handcrafted Christmas poem, “A Freestyle Christmas 2025 Fine in Rhyme”, wrapping up an incredible year for the podcast 🎄❤️
Crackers pulled. Hats worn. Freestyle festive chaos delivered.