Fred Vergnoux, the City of Edinburgh head coach who is in charge of the men's British Olympic team, reports that everything is going well in the build-up to Beijing for Scotland's ten British team swimmers.

"We are just back from a training camp in Sardinia, and it was a great team building exercise, as well as a good week of hard work," said the Frenchman.

"Now we have a block of training in Edinburgh before the whole Olympic team competes at a meet in Rome at the start of June."

Another big date looming for the Scottish ten - Kirsty Balfour, Kris Gilchrist, Gregor Tait, David Carry, Euan Dale, Todd Cooper, Robbie Renwick, Caitlin McClatchey, Hannah Miley and Andrew Hunter - is the ASA Championships in Liverpool at the start of July.

Vergnoux is confident that his City of Edinburgh trio - Balfour, Gilchrist and Tait - will perform with pride in China. "All three are training really well," he said. "There is a really good atmosphere around at the Commonwealth Pool at the moment."

Balfour, a world long-course championship silver medallist in 200m breaststroke, and Gilchrsit, a world short-course champion in the same event, are two of Britain's top podium prospects.