Peirsol calls time on glittering career
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February 6, 2011, Sunday
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AMERICAN backstroker Aaron Peirsol, a five-time Olympic gold medallist, has retired from competitive swimming.
Peirsol, who still holds world records for 100 and 200 meter backstroke, told his hometown newspaper, the Austin American-Statesman, on Friday he no longer had sufficient motivation. "Retiring is such a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do," Peirsol said. "But to do this right, you've got to give it 110 percent. I can't give it 110 percent any more." Peirsol won five gold and two silver medals at the Olympics as well as 10 gold medals at the world championships and was the world's premier backstroker for almost a decade.
Peirsol, who still holds world records for 100 and 200 meter backstroke, told his hometown newspaper, the Austin American-Statesman, on Friday he no longer had sufficient motivation. "Retiring is such a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do," Peirsol said. "But to do this right, you've got to give it 110 percent. I can't give it 110 percent any more." Peirsol won five gold and two silver medals at the Olympics as well as 10 gold medals at the world championships and was the world's premier backstroker for almost a decade.
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