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Listed below are comments made by jeffswims between Thursday, 9th July 2009 and Friday, 17th July 2009.

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How sport can save the world 1:08pm on 17 Jul 2009 The incredible Ian Thorpe certainly shows his commitment to issues in his native Australia and his work there is to be lauded. As he said, he was still a very young man when he decided to look around and see where else his interest lay beyond swimming. You can change the world through sports as Lance Armstrong is, or with music as Joan Baez has, through politics as I am trying to, and countless unnamed people do every day in the best way they can. Nevertheless, I think it would be wonderful were Mr. Thorpe to return to the pool for London 2012. Let's cross our fingers...
Let's go Beyond Sport 05:25am on 09 Jul 2009 Ask Ian if he would consider swimming again...

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