News:

* Phelps, Coughlin, Peirsol held up; Hackett draws a crowd

* Peirsol armed with the look of a champion

* Peirsol - the backstroke badshah!

* Teammates at Texas, Olympic swimmers compete in Beijing
Dallas News Article:

“...  Everyone will talk about Michael Phelps and his attempt to win eight gold medals at the Olympics. But three-time Olympians Ian Crocker and Aaron Peirsol as well as two-time Olympian Brendan Hansen - all former Longhorns under Reese - will be captivating storylines, as well.

They consider themselves family. They know everything about each other’s pet peeves, girlfriends and most embarrassing moments. They were college teammates, recruited from across the country, who have grown to be much more. ...”

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Picture:
* Yahoo News Pictures: here, here and here (activate the slide show)

* Getty Images: here and here (team pictures)

Pictures:

Reuters: David Gray

Reuters: Jason Reed

More pictures of the US Team can be found at:
* Yahoo News Pictures: here, here and here (activate the slide show)

* Getty Images: here and here (team pictures)

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* Phelps nowhere to be seen as US swim team arrives

“... After a week of training at the Singapore Island Country Club, the team’s other stars - including Aaron Peirsol, Ryan Lochte and Natalie Coughlin - were escorted through the crowd to the team bus and taken to afternoon training. ...”

* 4 medals and counting for swimmer Aaron Peirsol

“... Although he’s been to the Olympics more than once, he said they’re incomparable.

“Each one is unique unto itself, you know, they’re not the same every four years,” Peirsol said. “Athens holds a different fruit to its labor than Australia or China, and in each one also, too, the competition is a lot different, it’s a completely different animal every time.” ...”

* U.S. Olympic Swimming Press Conference From Singapore

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If you want to catch the last footage and coverage of the Olympic Trials you should hurry.
U.S. Olympic Trials Footage on Short Time
Footage will be taken done before the Games in Beijjing start. So go and check out Swimming World Magazine’s Trials Page.

OC Register Article:
* Peirsol armed with the look of a champion

“.... “He got knocked down, but he got right back up and went even harder. And in Omaha it showed.,” world champion breaststroker Brendan Hansen of Peirsol, his teammate at Longhorn Aquatics. “He is the best in the world. He is Mr. Backstroke and if you start thinking that he’s not or somebody tells him that he’s not then he’ll prove it over and over and over again that he is.”

With six individual World titles and nine world records among the highlights on his resume, a sweep of the backstrokes in Beijing plus the likelihood of another gold on the 4x100 medley relay would once and for all establish Peirsol in the minds of most as the premier backstroker in history.

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Lochte’s world record-setting upset left Peirsol like the rest of the swimming world in shock.

“The 200, that’s his baby,” said Ian Crocker, the former world 100 butterfly record-holder and another Longhorn teammate. “There were some rough days when we got back to Austin.”

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Peirsol is uncertain of his future after Beijing, although his friends expect him to retire. He admits to wanting to spend more time with girlfriend Amanda Larence, a former Texas swimmer, and working as a “clean water ambassador” for the environmental group Oceana. ....

But first he looks to clean up in another body of water. “It would be a very big deal,” Peirsol said of the prospect of a second Olympic sweep. ...”

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L.A. Times article:
* Swimsuit controversy swirls

“... Still, when Aaron Peirsol, a Nike endorser, casually mentioned at a media gathering at Stanford he would consider wearing the Speedo suit in Beijing, it barely caused a ripple. He would be doing it with Nike’s blessing, just as he did in Omaha when he set a world record in the 100-meter backstroke in the LZR and tied another in the 200 backstroke. ...”

* US, Aussie swimmers bunker down ahead of Olympic battle

OC Register Article: Interview with Aaron
* Irvine’s Olympian Aaron Peirsol talks about his chances for the gold in Beijing

“... Talk about your experiences at the Olympic Trials?

Peirsol: It went well. That was the first time I’ve ever gone world records in both the 100 and 200 in the same meet so that was something big for me. It obviously sets me up pretty good for the Olympics....”

* Texas exes hoping to make a splash in Beijing

“... “We more or less, in the last six years, have grown up together, have gone through college together, know the ins and outs of each other extremely well,"Peirsol said recently. “We’ve all helped each other, not just physically, but letting each other know we belong here and that is half the battle. It really is."....”

Sorry for the lack of updates I have been busy with finishing my exams for my university degree.
I am trying to get back into things before the Games start.

So here is a video of Aaron talking with young swimmers about the “America’s Cheer” project.
Watch it!

NBC Olmypics.com has assembled galleries of the US Team. The galleries are called “Through the Years”.
Go and check out Aaron’s “through the years” gallery

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* Defeat drives Peirsol to shape up for Beijing

“...One defeat in seven years provided American backstroker Aaron Peirsol with all the motivation he needed to get in the best shape of his life for the Beijing Olympics.

“You can get kind of comfortable where I was,” he said this month. “I’m beginning to learn that’s not always the best place to be.”
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