Different strokes: How a top US trainer is aiming to change Indian swimming Srihari Nataraj is the national record holder in the 100m backstroke event Srihari Nataraj Months before Nisha Millet made her debut at the Olympic Games in Sydney 2000, she stumbled upon the bewildering world of biomechanics and underwater cameras. She was 18, chasing an Olympic qualifying mark and training in Perth on an IOC scholarship, alongside a bunch of Australian swimmers. "Until then, I'd never seen an underwater camera in my life," she says, "In India, I'd been swimming 16 kilometers every day. But there was no science to our training."