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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/gary-hall-jr-ready-to-face-the-sprinting-newbies/">Gary Hall, Jr. Ready to Face the Sprinting Newbies</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted May 2, 2008 at 06:00 PM by Michael J. Sedor</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Image details: Swimming - Finals served by picapp.com Beware 50m men’s freestyle johnny-come-latelies. The 33-year-old Gary Hall, Jr. is tanned, rested, and ready to return himself to the the world record-breaking arena. The two-time defending 50m gold medalist is focused on his three-peat. He told Reuters that “I feel really good, I’m fit, a little bit more training and I’m ready.” Ready to break the 50m world record for the first time. An achievement that has eluded him despite his big meet success. Tom Jager’s 21.81 world was set in 1990 and remained the standard until Alexander Popov’s astounding 2000 21.64 swim. That record stood until February of the year. Since then it’s been eclipsed by four swimmers, all sporting the NASA-designed space-age…<a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/gary-hall-jr-ready-to-face-the-sprinting-newbies/">(<a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/gary-hall-jr-ready-to-face-the-sprinting-newbies/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/gary-hall-jr-ready-to-face-the-sprinting-newbies/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/gary-hall-jr-ready-to-face-the-sprinting-newbies/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/archive/category/beijing-2008/">Beijing-2008</a>, <a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/archive/category/events/">Events</a>, <a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/archive/category/aquatics/">Aquatics</a>, <a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/archive/category/featured-writers/">Featured-Writers</a>, <a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/archive/category/michael-j-sedor/">Michael-J-Sedor</a><br /><br /> </P>