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However, the content quality, sport-specific relevance, safety, and repeated-generation stability of AI-generated race-day plans remain insufficiently examined, particularly in competitive swimming. It also remains unclear how different AI tools may support coaches in drafting, comparing, and refining competition-day preparation plans.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study aimed to compare the expert-rated physiological relevance, content quality, and generation-level stability of race-day warm-up and immediate post-race cool-down plans generated by four publicly accessible LLM-based AI tools for a simulated 100-m freestyle swimmer, and to identify how these tools may serve as coach-supervised drafting and comparison aids in swimming race-day preparation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A simulation-based content-analysis design with a within-rater repeated-measures structure was used. Four AI tools\u2014ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Doubao\u2014each generated five independent outputs using the same standardized detailed prompt. Each output included a race-day warm-up plan and an immediate post-race cool-down plan. After anonymization and randomization, 32 experts with experience in coaching or teaching 100-m sprint swimming independently rated the plans using a 40-item multidimensional rating instrument. Inter-rater reliability was assessed using intraclass correlation coefficients and Krippendorff\u2019s alpha. The primary analysis used a cumulative link mixed model with fixed effects for AI model, section, and their interaction, and random intercepts for rater, item, and generation ID. Exploratory domain-level and generation-level stability analyses were also conducted.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>ChatGPT showed the highest descriptive overall quality. The cumulative link mixed model showed a significant model \u00d7 section interaction (p &amp;lt;.001), indicating that model differences varied between the warm-up and cool-down sections. ChatGPT received higher ratings than DeepSeek and Doubao in the warm-up section and than all three other models in the cool-down section. Exploratory domain-level analyses showed differences across all 10 content-quality domains. Generation-level stability did not correspond directly to expert-rated quality: Doubao was the most stable model, whereas ChatGPT showed the most favorable overall quality profile but greater repeated-generation variability.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Publicly accessible LLM-based AI tools can generate structured swimming race-day warm-up and immediate post-race cool-down plans, but their ability to translate sprint-swimming physiological principles into practical prescriptions differs across tools and plan sections. In this simulated 100-m freestyle scenario, ChatGPT showed the most favorable overall expert-rated profile, whereas Doubao produced more stable but lower-rated outputs. These findings suggest that AI-generated swimming race-day plans should not be used as stand-alone prescriptions. Instead, they may support coaches by providing preliminary drafts, alternative plan structures, and clearer prescription details for further expert screening and revision. 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