Big news over at Timed Finals, Jenny Thompson back in the water again.
Olympian Jenny thompson: Participated in four Olympics with twelve medals total, eight gold, three silver and one bronze. She was ranked the 62nd greatest athlete of all time in a 1999 poll conducted by Sports Illustrated. Jenny has a medical degree from Columbia and is interning now at New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and it appears she is back in the water competing again.
Timed Finals has a link to an Italian article regarding the meet she swam in, the 8th International Meeting of Mondovi, whereas she swam the 50 fly and placed 2nd with time of 27.44. the story is here. What I find so exceptional is that not only was she just a little more than a 1/2 second off of Natalie Coughlin's winning time of 26.85 at the AIS International Meet in Australia last week, but that she has been in retirement, gone through med-school and doing a 16-hour-a-day internship at a very worthy hospital. I would love it if Speedo or Tyr picked up the tab on her student loans if she agreed to wear one of their super-hero outfits.
Oh, and while you are at Timed Finals, read how Jenny Thompson turned down a swanky honor called the Pettee Medal by the University of New Hampshire to protest the university’s decision to terminate the men’s swim team along with other sports.
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