ASC boss Simon Hollingsworth disappointed by swim coach Leigh Nugent Australian Swimming head coach Leigh Nugent speaks following the release of the Independent Review into swimming toda. Picture: Kym Smith Source: Supplied AUSTRALIAN Sports Commission boss Simon Hollingsworth says he's disappointed by Swimming Australia head coach Leigh Nugent's dismissive reaction to the findings of two damning reports into the sport. An independent review commissioned by SA in the wake of the disappointing 2012 London Games found a "toxic" environment operating within the team but Nugent maintained today he not aware of any behavioural issues at the Olympics. Speaking following the release of the twin reports into swimming's performance at last year's Games, Hollingworth said it was Nugent's responsibility to be aware of what his team was up to. "I think it's fair to say the head coach should have oversight of the broad happenings of the team," Hollingworth said. The indepdent review commissioned by Swimming Australia cited incidents of "getting drunk, misuse of prescription drugs, breaching curfews, deceit, bullying." It was conducted by consultant Dr Pippa Grange after being commissioned by Swimming Australia. It claimed "the most significant issue in swimming was the quietly growing lack of focus on people across the board." An ASC review into Australian swimming, also released today, recommended the appointment of a "swimming supremo" to take overall charge of the high performance program. But this met with resentment by Nugent who described such roles as "tenuous" and said he expected to retain his job. "Any high performance job is one of those tenuous poisitons anyway," Nugent said. In the environment of the Olympics I think there is a lot going on around you. Swimming Australia President Barclay Nettlefold who said he uncertain if any swimmers would be disciplined over the behavioural issues within the national team. Asked specifically about reports of stilnox abuse, Nettlefold said he would "not deal with that in isolation." We are looking at the whole behaviour of the team and want to continue moving forward on the behaviour of the team. The Bluestone review headed by Dr Grange was highly critical of team management at the Games were Australia won a solitary gold medal in the pool in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay. The report found the "glorification of a few was seen somewhere between embarrassing and irritating to other team members." "One person said he felt that it was not really about whether you swam your heart out, it was about whether you could sell your heart out," it said. The report said some older athletes saw the storm brewing and attempted to intervene, but their attempts were seen as being negative and criticising. Some individual incidents of unkindness, peer intimidation, hazing and just bad form as a team member that were escalated to personal coaches were not addressed and had no further consequence. The review found Nugent and some support staff didn't hear about most of the incidents until they returned to Australia. "Athletes felt disconnected from the head coach, and their sense of duty was localised," it said. Things were managed quietly rather than brought to a head and several examples of coaches passing over the responsibility for hard conversations were given. Australian swimmers won just one gold, six silver and three bronze medals at the London Olympics, the lowest return at the pool since the 1992 Barcelona Games. The swim team entered London amid claims of schoolboy pranks at a lead-in camp, with allegations that senior members of the men's 4x100m freestyle relay team devised an initiation ritual involving taking the prescription sleeping pill Stillnox on a bonding night. The review recommended creating an ethical framework for Australian swimming - a position of what the sport, governing body and athletes won't stand for, and also stated goals and values. "There is a dire need to develop and enable leadership throughout swimming," said the report, recommending multi-faceted leadership development programs for athletes. And the head coach should also undergo an intensive "coach-the-coach" leadership program lasting at least three months. Hollingsworth also said the Sports Commission was expecting the Australian team to win more medals at the next Oylmpics in Rio de Janerio in 2016. He said it was imperative changes were made to the leadership structure within swimming sooner rather than later and indicated the sport may receive less funding if it failed to make significant progress.