First the TV news:
I took the info from SwimStars.org

“Duel In The Pool” on wiill be on TV in Australia. Foxtel will broadcast the event on Thursday, November 17 noon on Fox2 Sports. Later that day there will be a live telecast of the Swimming Australia Skins at 7:30PM. Then on November 19-20, fans can tune in to Fox2 Sports
for the Aussie leg of the FINA World Cup. Coverage begins on the 19th at 7:00PM and on the 20th at 8:00PM.

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Merchandise: 
Since yesterday Unfiltered, the docu about Michael and Ian, is available.  Got to Swim with the Stars.com to order your copy. The DVD will be delivered worldwide.
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... so all parts of the site should be up and running again. I am sorry for the offline time, that was due to a massive server failure at the data center APO is hosted at. I hope everything is okay again and if you find any error page or if something is not working please tell me.

On to real news then: Aaron will not compete in the World Short Course Championships which will take part in Shanghai next April.
To see which athletes will accompany Ryan Lochte, Larsen Jensen and Klete Keller check the following article:
United States Names Squad for World Short Course Champs

Swimming: Olympian Aaron Peirsol makes appearance at Bozeman Swim Center

Part of the Nike grant the club won in the spring was the arrival of Olympic backstroker Aaron Peirsol, who won a clutch of medals in Athens a year ago, and every heart at the Bozeman Swim Center this weekend.

Peirsol was on the kind of whirlwind tour expected from world-class athletes coming to Bozeman. After running about 30 Masters swimmers through four hours of drills Saturday, he left Sunday to return to school at the University of Texas at Austin.

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“Swimming is a grass-roots sport,” Peirsol said. “They really soaked everything up today.”

By MIKE KIEFER, Chronicle Sports Writer

The success of the Bozeman Masters Swimming Club and its fundraiser clinic Saturday afternoon was painted in blush across every female face, age six to 60.

Part of the Nike grant the club won in the spring was the arrival of Olympic backstroker Aaron Peirsol, who won a clutch of medals in Athens a year ago, and every heart at the Bozeman Swim Center this weekend.

Peirsol was on the kind of whirlwind tour expected from world-class athletes coming to Bozeman. After running about 30 Masters swimmers through four hours of drills Saturday, he left Sunday to return to school at the University of Texas at Austin.

But this was not the Hatch Festival Redux.

Attendees expecting larger-than-life figure, a physical freak in the Michael Phelps mold, might have been surprised to find an athletic but not imposing Peirsol in his speedo, who was quick to jump in alongside them and demonstrate his flip turn.

Hands-on, down-to-earth - these were the descriptions of the international star who looked more the part of goofy college dude than golden Olympic God.

“This is the first master’s clinic that I’ve got to do, and I dug it,” Peirsol said after a half-an-hour autograph session that had stretched to the door of the swimming pool. “I’m used to kids clinic and they can pick things up over time, but I think that these guys grasp things that kids can’t grasp. The important thing is that they want to be here. It was an education for me as well.”

Peirsol peppered his demonstrations with anecdotes at the expense of his fellow Olympians and regaled the audience with stories from the life of an athlete that accomplished most his dreams at the age of 21.

He got knowing laughs when he said gained 30 pounds in the six-month break he took after the Olympics. Then he confessed he had Britney Spears music running through his head during the first 100 meters of race.

The questions he fielded from the club members, who ranged in age from mid-20s to late-60s, were all of a technical nature ranging from his diet and sleep habits to the six-beat kick he uses in his record-breaking backstroke.

“We all started somewhere,” Peirsol said. “You got to remember when you were 10 years old and you were a kid, when the people you looked up to coming to talk and what that meant to you. It’s about giving some of that back.”

The event was a watershed moment for the city’s Masters Club, now just two years old, after winning the Nike’s $1,500 prize for programs trying to break new ground in areas unfamiliar to swimming. The money will go toward expanding the club’s restrictive workout times beyond the cramped Bozeman Swim Center.

Also included in the Nike Grant is a photo spread in the USMS Swimming Magazine that will team organizers hope will build interest.

Few things will be a bigger draw than the kind of event they managed Saturday.

“Swimming is a grass-roots sport,” Peirsol said. “They really soaked everything up today.”

.. to say. There are no real news right now.

But I put the gallery back online. This gallery is now screencaps and fanpictures only.
That’s why I have a little request for anyone who wants to help me a little. If you have fanart (wallpapers, icons, avatars etc.), fanvideos, videos of meets you took or ,most important, pictures you took at a meet I would be very very grateful and happy to host them here on APO. Drop me a line (or comment) here or write me a mail.
Thanks to everyone for the support and the pictures I already got.

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And you can still vote at votegoldengoggles!
Go and vote for your favourite!
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The sorting out of the gallery goes on and I am pretty positiv that the pictures will be up at the end of this week again.

The gallery at SwimStars.org is up and running again, too.  So for lots of fanpics of Aaron in Montreal go there and check them out.

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