04 May: Julian Bolling, Sri Lankan Swimming Champion

Published: May 4, 2017, 7:54 a.m.

Julian Bolling is a former Sri Lankan swimming champion. In the 1980s and 90s he won 15 titles in four editions of the South Asian Games. he represented his country in three Summer Olympics. Today Julian is a swimming coach based in Colombo. In this week's programme he tells us about the impact of the devastating tsunami that hit Sri Lanka on 26 December 2004 and how his Rainbow Swimming Academy have been helping people, and especially children, since then to overcome their fear of the sea.