Swimming: Lowri Aiming to Make Waves Among Commonwealth Elite ; Countdown to the Commonwealth Games in the Daily Post's Build-Up to the 2006 Commonwealth Games, Mark Currie Profiles the North Walians Bidding for Success in Melbourne

Daily Post › January 06, 2006

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FOR most 18-year olds in their final year at school the impending ordeal of A levels assumes an all consuming priority, but Commonwealth Games swimmer Lowri Tynan is set to put her studies on the back burner for the best part of two months as she prepares to battle for medals in Melbourne.

The Wrexham teenager, the youngest member of the Wales squad when the Games were staged in Manchester four years ago, can't wait to board the plane on January 29 when the Team Wales swimming squad head via a stop-over in Singapore for Australia's Gold Coast and a period of acclimatisation before travelling to the opening ceremony on March 15.

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Swimming: Lowri Aiming to Make Waves Among Commonwealth Elite ; Countdown to the Commonwealth Games in the Daily Post's Build-Up to the 2006 Commonwealth Games, Mark Currie Profiles the North Walians Bidding for Success in Melbourne

Tynan, a student at Ysgol Morgan Llwyd who will be racing in both the 50m and 100m breast-stroke events, said she was looking forward to the trip.

"The first time I was selected for a W...

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