Closing The Book On Peirsol

Aaron Peirsol's retirement in his own words.

What a star. Prior to Peirsol taking over the backstroke world in the early 2000s the man in the backstroke was fellow American Lenny Krayzelburg, and as Peirsol came up to break Krayzelburg's 200BK World Record in 2002 and 100BK World Record in 2004 it's amazing to think that Peirsol has essentially made people forget about how amazing a swimmer Krayzelburg actually was during his run. It is like Michael Jordan coming along and overshadowing the greatness of Magic Johnson.

There's nothing more that needs to be said about Peirsol, watch the video, he's an icon of swimming that's on his way to the Hall of Fame as soon as he's eligible.