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In keeping with the discussion on the technical swim suits, here’s an article from the November 3rd “Wall Street Journal,” Some Aging Competitors Call High-Tech Swimsuits Dirty Pool. It kind of rehashes a lot of the discussion that we’ve already heard over the past year or so, but it’s a…
As I was digging myself out of an email blizzard after being gone for a couple of weeks, I found this message from Rules Committee Chair, Kathy Casey on the USMS policy on swimming suits. If you own a racing suit, take a gander at the note below. You can…
Even though this interview aired two weeks ago (probably to promote Tuesday’s release of No Limits: The Will to Succeed, which each member of the CBD coaching staff got as a gift at today’s holiday party), I’m suddenly only just now hearing about it from everyone I know: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASEsFEoDAn0] Some…
We’re a bit late on this one, but 34-year-old Gary Hall Jr. announced Saturday, Nov. 15, that he is retiring from swimming to devote himself to his family — he’s married with two small children — and his foundation for diabetes. I hope that with a swimmer readership, Gary Hall Jr. needs no…
