Lots out there about Jessica Hardy’s withdrawl from Beijing. I’ve tried to list only press releases, blog entries and articles that add something to the discussion.
I don’t want to think about how Hardy must feel right now. I hope that she clears her name and that we see her in the pool in London.
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Hardy Requests Confidentiality for HearingJuly 30 NY Daily News article giving latest on Hardy’s upcoming hearing. A little more about the confidential hearings at the LA Times’ Ticket to Beijing blog.
Hardy tells of anguish over positive drug testJuly 28 Long Beach Press-Telegram interview with Hardy at her parents’ home.
Hardy’s test leaves questionsJuly 24 Seattle Times [...]
On September 28 of this year, Kaustubh Vemuri, a 10-year-old from Pune, India, swam from Anacapa Island to Oxnard (in California), becoming the youngest person to cross the Santa Barbara Channel. It was not his first major swim; among other feats, he completed a 72 km swim in India when only eight.
When I learned of [...]
…until the Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha, Nebraska. I have to start training my kids now; we’ve only got the one t.v. and they’re dedicated watchers, but not of swimming. It’ll be tough for them to forego reruns of “The Simple Life” for a whole week, but they’re just going to have to grit their [...]
Yes, I should know better than to run wind-sprints with my eleven-year-old daughter Hannah. But, hey, I wanted to turn some sand into glass during the start and finish of the Pier-to-Pier race. Instead, a kid barely out of diapers (okay, she was probably about fifteen) passed me as we hit the sand and raced [...]
Since I turned 50 this year year, my goal for last weekend’s Pier-to-Pier race was to place in the top 50 and go under 50 minutes. (Pretty clever, right?) I achieved the latter: with help from a strong south current, I went 43:31, almost seven minutes faster than last year.
So I should be pleased. But [...]
During my stint traveling around the country as Pierre Cruzatte, I always to tried find a pool in the different cities in which I performed. Couldn’t always do this; but, when I could, it was because of two great web resources — the Swimmers Guide and Places to Swim. Without the former, I’d probably never [...]
I have a dream: swim an open water race in every state of the union. I’m well on my way; so far I’ve raced in one state. Only 49 to go.
I’d like to start with North Dakota — of all the states I visited during the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial, it was clearly my favorite. [...]
